(plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
(nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
(machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
(machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
(music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
(kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
(programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).