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staircase
English
Etymology
stair +? case
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?st???ke?s/
- Hyphenation: stair?case
Noun
staircase (plural staircases)
- A flight of stairs; a stairway.
- A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.
Derived terms
- staircasing
Translations
Verb
staircase (third-person singular simple present staircases, present participle staircasing, simple past and past participle staircased)
- (transitive) To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) so as to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps.
See also
- jaggies
Anagrams
- Caesarist
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quarterpace
English
Etymology
quarter +? pace
Noun
quarterpace (plural quarterpaces)
- (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only.
See also
- halfpace
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