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Staircase Common

Staircase has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
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."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
way
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
backstairs companionway escalator fire escape flight ghat stairs ramp
Rhyming Words
ase base ease rase wase nase sase vase tase case kase lase mase jase mease dbase tease pease ukase dease
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