slotwise

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adverb

Per slot, according to a slot.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adverbslotwise (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePer slot, according to a slot.

    Slotwise cyclic scanning of the input streams is assumed at a rate nr

    2000, IEEE Information Theory Society (contributor), Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, page 105
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    or if compelled to turn out he affixed the hobbles, and following the track (slotwise) at dawn of day, regularly and efficiently produced the hackneys saddled and accoutred at the proper after-breakfast hour.

    1890, Rolf Boldrewood, A Colonial Reformer, Volume 1, page 203

    Since position in the turn was the starting-point for identifying discourse function, it seems appropriate to discuss what the carry-on signals were found to do by going slotwise and from function to form.

    1987, Willem Meijs (contributor), Corpus Linguistics and Beyond, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora, page 95

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