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Step-by-step   /stɛp-baɪ-stɛp/   Listen
Step-by-step

adjective
1.
One thing at a time.  Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, stepwise.






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"Step-by-step" Quotes from Famous Books



... became the sovereign who, by serious and cogent argument, had succeeded in inducing her Ministers to strike strongly and quickly on the side of law and order, they having been at first inclined to adopt a "step-by-step" policy as to sending out aid, which would not have been very grateful to the hard-pressed authorities in India; while the Queen and the Prince shared Lord Canning's opinion, that "nothing but a long continued manifestation ...
— Great Britain and Her Queen • Anne E. Keeling

... pursued. One involves direct keyboard transmission; the other, the use at the sending end of a perforated tape capable of being run through a transmitting machine at high speed. One type of the former is the so-called step-by-step process, in which a revolving body in the transmitting apparatus, as, for instance, a cylinder provided with pegs placed at intervals around its circumference in spiral fashion, is arrested by the depression of the keys of the keyboard in such a way that a type ...
— Masters of Space - Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty • Walter Kellogg Towers



Words linked to "Step-by-step" :   gradual, bit-by-bit, in small stages



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