Definition of Step-down

1. Noun. The act of decreasing or reducing something.


Definition of Step-down

1. Adjective. That decreases in stages ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a transformer etc) That reduces a voltage ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Step-down

stentorious
stentoriously
stentorophonic
stentors
stentour
stentours
stents
step
step-
step-aunt
step-aunts
step-by-step
step-cousin
step-cousins
step-dance
step-down (current term)
step-down transformer
step-father
step-fathers
step-in
step-ins
step-nephew
step-nephews
step-niece
step-nieces
step-sibling
step-siblings
step-through
step-throughs
step-thru

Literary usage of Step-down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"shrugged off his arm and took a faltering step down the slope, back toward the road. "I'll wait in the car, okay?" "Mimi," he said. He felt angry at her. ..."

2. Thermodynamics for Engineers by James Alfred Ewing (1920)
"The step-down in Temperature. Use of an Expansion Cylinder in Machines using Air. ... A gas which conforms to that law would suffer no step-down of ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"Since the high-tension winding of this step- down transformer has a total length of ... The records are taken on the low-tension side of the step-down ..."

4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"She proceeded to the exit indicated, where a bright light was located directly in the corridor, and where there was a step down of about 7 inches,—an ..."

5. Recent Developments in Multiple Comparison Procedures by Yoav Benjamini, Frank Bretz, S. K. Sarkar (2004)
"In this paper, we use least favorable configurations to obtain critical values for both step-down and step-up procedures, valid for both dependent and ..."

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