between-step

plural between-steps · alternative between step

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

   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, Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia

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   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, [...]

   1949, Marie Bonaparte (Princess), The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe

   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 yourself.

   2003, Edward Prime-Stevenson, James J. Gifford, Imre: A Memorandum

alternative between step

1. attributivenot comparableIntermediate; 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 Management - Volume 2 - Page 10

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   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 either type of error that occurs ...

   1988, Daniel Druckman, John A. Swets, Enhancing Human Performance

   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 to exploitation by the animals [...]

   1992, T. Royama, Analytical Population Dynamics