stagelike

comparative more stagelike · superlative most stagelike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a stage (setting where a dramatic work is performed).
2. sciencesproceeding through discrete stages; often used of developmental processes.

   Contra Piaget, I argue that:(1) development rarely involves stagelike domain-general change.

   1997, Bonatti et al., "Precis of beyond modularity," Behavioral and Brain Science 20(2), 351-360