Step

Step or Steps may refer to:

  • Walk
  • Dance step, the building block of many dances
  • Military step, a regular, ordered and synchronized walking of military formations
    • Marching, refers to the organized, uniformed, steady and rhythmic walking forward, usually associated with military troops
  • Edward Step (1855–1931), author of books on various aspects of nature
  • Step (air base), a Soviet/Russian military facility in Chita Oblast
  • Step (footing), a horizontal platform of a stairway
  • Steps (group), a British pop group (from 1997)
  • Step (Kara album), a 2011 album by South Korean girl group Kara
  • Step (Meg album), a 2007 album by Japanese technopop singer-lyricist MEG
  • "Step" (song), a song by Korean pop girl group Kara
  • Step (music), an interval between two consecutive scale degrees
  • Step (software), the physics simulator included in KDE
  • Steps (TVB), a Hong Kong television series
  • Steps (novel), a National Book Award winning novel by Jerzy Kosinski
  • Step aerobics, aerobic exercise which uses an elevated platform
  • Step dance, a dance style where the footwork is the most important part of the dance
  • Step function, in mathematics
  • Stepfamily, reconstituted family, is a family in which one or both members of the couple have children from a previous relationship
  • A "step", moving from line to line in a mathematical proof using rules of logical inference

STEP or STEPS may refer to:

  • STEP (company), a Belgian company
  • STEP (satellite), a planned space science experiment
  • STEP Library, Standard Template for Electronic Publishing, a file format used to distribute Biblical software
  • Sixth Term Examination Paper, examinations set in the United Kingdom by the University of Cambridge to assess applicants for undergraduate mathematics courses
  • Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the international professional body for workers in the trust industry and the (often overlapping) field of estate administration
  • ISO 10303, Standard for the Exchange of Product model data
  • Standardized Tactical Entry Point, to extend DISN services into the tactical theater to provide initial connectivity between the deployed warfighter and sustaining base
  • Stellar Planet Survey, a search for Jupiter-mass and larger planets around 30 nearby dwarf M stars (see List of astronomy acronyms)
  • Sustainable Transport Energy for Perth, a first fuel cell bus program
  • Systematic Training for Effective Parenting, a parent education program published as a series of books
  • The Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the U.S. National Academies

StEP may refer to:

  • Solving the E-waste Problem, an international initiative, created to develop solutions to address issues associated with Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
  • Staggered extension process, a method in molecular biology to shuffle mutations in genes

Famous quotes containing the word step:

    “But with one step backward taken
    I saved myself from going.
    A world torn loose went by me.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Perestroika basically is creating material incentives for the individual. Some of the comrades deny that, but I can’t see it any other way. In that sense human nature kinda goes backwards. It’s a step backwards. You have to realize the people weren’t quite ready for a socialist production system.”
    —Gus Hall (b. 1910)

    “When a toddler uses profanity, don’t make a big deal about it. If you do, you give the child more power. After all, it’s only a word—one that won’t do much harm to anybody. In fact, if you think about it, a nasty word is a step up from hitting or biting someone. So look at it as a sign of growth.”
    —Lawrence Balter (20th century)