staircase
Pronunciation:
/ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/noun
Definitions
A flight of stairs; a stairway.
A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.
verb
Definitions
To modify (a signal, a graph, etc.) so as to reduce a smooth curve to a series of discrete steps.