staircasing

Verb

staircase (third-person singular simple present staircases, present participle staircasing, simple past and past participle staircased)

1. (transitive) To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps.
   • This leads to much smoother reconstructions in regions of moderate gradient and thus prevents staircasing.2006, Nikos Paragios, Yunmei Chen, Olivier D. Faugeras, editors, Handbook of Mathematical Models in Computer Vision, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26
2. To increase one's share in a co-ownership.
   • It is a good idea to make plans for staircasing when you first buy your shared ownership home.2018, Dave Cowan, Helen Carr, Alison Wallace, Ownership, Narrative, Things, Springer, →ISBN, page 139

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