STEPWISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stepwise mean? 

• STEPWISE (adjective)
  The adjective STEPWISE has 1 sense:

1. one thing at a time

  Familiarity information: STEPWISE used as an adjective is very rare.

• STEPWISE (adverb)
  The adverb STEPWISE has 1 sense:

1. proceeding in steps

  Familiarity information: STEPWISE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEPWISE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One thing at a time

Synonyms:

bit-by-bit; in small stages; piecemeal; step-by-step; stepwise

Similar:

gradual (proceeding in small stages)

• STEPWISE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Proceeding in steps

Synonyms:

step by step; stepwise

Context example:

the voltage was increased stepwise

 Context examples 

A stepwise increase in the amount of a therapeutic or investigational agent given to an individual.

(Dose Escalation, NCI Thesaurus)

Further experiments showed that ILCs acquire their barcodes in a stepwise manner over the course of cellular development.

(Rapid-response immune cells are fully prepared before invasion strikes, NIH)

An enzyme that catalyzes the stepwise addition of ribonucleotides to the 3' end of a growing RNA chain using a single-stranded DNA template.

(DNA-directed RNA Polymerase, NCI Thesaurus)

There is evidence supporting the idea that the Barrett adenocarcinomas develop through a stepwise progression through intestinal metaplastic epithelium to epithelial dysplasia to malignancy.

(Barrett Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

While this stepwise arrangement of hair cells on the basilar membrane—the tonotopic map—has been known for years, how the cells become ordered this way was unknown.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

Cluster analysis that uses stepwise partitioning of objects.

(Hierarchical Clustering, NCI Thesaurus)

Dementia, due to significant cerebrovascular disease, with a stepwise deteriorating course and a 'patchy' distribution of neurologic deficits.

(Multi-Infarct Dementia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)