Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Functioning in more than one stage: a multistage design project.
- adj. Relating to or composed of two or more propulsion units.
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- adj. Having more than one step, phase or piece.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. occurring in more than one stage
Etymologies
Examples
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He has been doing well in multistage races this year.
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Armstrong finished 23rd Saturday, on the same time as the winner, and lies 29th overall, 49 seconds behind Davis, as he nears the end of his first multistage race in 3 1/2 years.
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Another problem, say consumer advocates, is that medical providers charge patients for the full cost of a procedure at the first visit even before multistage medical work is completed.
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Marxists saw communism as the liberating climax of a multistage evolutionary process.
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Volkswagen also is in the midst of completing a multistage takeover of German sports-car maker Porsche, which already operates as part of Volkswagen's stable of brands.
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The scalloped edge gives the knife a multistage cutting action that enables clean slicing of bread fresh from the oven.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. asked regulators to revise the Volcker rule's guidelines for compliance to include a multistage implementation process within the existing timeline.
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Massive payloads into space should continue to be launched by unmanned multistage rockets.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch
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The US DoD also has experience with large multistage rockets with solid motor first stages: Minuteman, Peacekeeper, Trident etc.
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He conducted groundbreaking work on the mathematics of multistage decision-making that has been applied in defense and finance, and he wrote a textbook on Bayesian statistics, a method of incorporating knowledge about past events into predictions about the likelihood of future events.
David H. Blackwell dies at 91; pioneering statistician at Howard and Berkeley
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