stairsteps

See also: stair-steps

English

Noun

stairsteps

1. plural of stairstep

Adjective

stairsteps (not comparable)

1. Having distinct evenly-spaced values, especially when arranged in order.
   • 1982, Helen Hooven Santmyer, "...And Ladies of the Club" (OSU Press, 1982) (Berkley edition, p. 844, Chapter "1892–1893")

     "I am the matronly mother of four girls: Lavinia is eleven now; the others stairsteps."

References

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