stepped
/stɛpt
/adjective
1Having or formed into a step or series of steps: a building with stepped access...
- We lurched up a series of rough, stepped rock pavements to access the plateau above the falaise.
- The second type of machine overcomes both of these disadvantages by making use of only one electric motor to drive a series of stepped cones.
- Anyone walking along the main atrium hallway towards the temporary exhibition space is confronted by a series of huge steel stepped arches.
2Carried out or occurring in stages or with pauses rather than continuously: a stepped scale of discounts
- at long last
- ATM
- atman
- atmosphere
- atmospheric
- atmospherical
- atmospherically
- atmospheric physics
- atmospheric pressure
- atmospherics
- at most
- at need
- at odds
- ATOL
- atoll
- atom
- atom bomb
- atom-bombed
- atom bombing
- atom-free
- atomic
- atomic absorption
- atomic absorption coefficient
- atomic absorption spectroscopy
- atomical