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:

    “This far outstripped the other;
    Yet ever runs she with reverted face,
    And looks and listens for the boy behind:
    For he, alas! is blind!
    O’er rough and smooth with even step he passed,
    And knows not whether he be first or last.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases,
    As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae.
    They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.
    There were those that returned to hear him read from the poem of life,
    Of the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them.
    They were those that would have wept to step barefoot into reality....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Two myths must be shattered: that of the evil stepparent . . . and the myth of instant love, which places unrealistic demands on all members of the blended family. . . . Between the two opposing myths lies reality. The recognition of reality is, I believe, the most important step toward the building of a successful second family.”
    —Claire Berman (20th century)