between-step

An intermediate or intermediary step, stage, process, or phase.

Adjective

  1. Intermediate; intermediary; in-process; interim.
    • Furthermore, in conjunction with various forms of pneumatic interlocking, the whole system fails safe, particularly in not holding a between-step condition. - 1963, Measurement and Control: Interpretative Reports for...
    • In this appendix, a within-step source of error refers to an error of either type that occurs as a result of the operations performed inside any of the boxes shown in Figure E-1; a between-step source of error refers to...
    • One assumption implicit in the logistic process in discrete time is that the resource is invariant between time steps. In section 4.4, I relax this assumption, allowing for a between-step variation in the resource due...

Origin

From between + step.

Forms

between step

Noun

  1. An intermediate or intermediary step, stage, process, or phase.
    • Clearly, the bottle-arms of this "Angel" represent, at one and the same time, the mother's breasts and the father's penis — though we should not forget the between-step of the concept of the mother's penis, [...] -...
    • If you find that your next situation on the stepladder is very frightening, then it is obviously too big a step and you should try to think of ways to make it a little easier, as a between step. - 1998, Ronald M. Rapee,...
    • I do not know, nor do I care to know, whether they are a sex by themselves, a justified, because helpless, play of Nature; or even a kind of logically essential link, a between-step, as you seem to have persuaded...

Forms

between-steps between step