noun🔗ShareA flight of stairs; a stairway."The children ran up the staircase to get to their bedrooms. "architecturebuildingstructureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell."The old house had a beautiful wooden staircase leading to the second floor. "architecturebuildingpropertystructureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next."The new dam's staircase allows fish to easily navigate the different water levels. "architecturenauticalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) so as to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps."To reduce bandwidth, the image processing software will staircase the smooth gradient of colors, resulting in visible steps between shades instead of a seamless transition. "technicalcomputingelectronicsmathsignalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading