Staircase has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Noun
Noun
1
a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps
"After unpacking all our boxes, we finally cleared out the clutter blocking the staircase so it was safe to climb again."
2
A flight of stairs; a stairway.
"The old staircase creaked loudly every time someone walked across it."
Verb
1
To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) so as to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps.
"The engineer decided to staircase the audio waveform to eliminate the high-frequency noise causing interference in the transmission."
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