Meaning & use

multistep

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Involving or consisting of several separate steps or stages.

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The recipe called for a multistep process of marinating, searing, and slow-braising the meat.

Students worked through a multistep equation to solve for the unknown variable.

A note on using this word

Common in cooking, chemistry, and mathematics whenever a task cannot be completed in a single operation.

Words with a similar meaning

multi-stage

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Words with an opposite meaning

single-step

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