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Bottom-up   /bˈɑtəm-əp/   Listen
Bottom-up

adjective
1.
Of an approach to a problem that begins with details and works up to the highest conceptual level.  "A bottom-up model of the reading process"





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"Bottom-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... the time was now long past when her crew ought to have been stirring, nor was there the faintest film of smoke issuing from her galley chimney. Yet it seemed that she could scarcely be abandoned, for she carried two boats at her davits, one on each quarter, while there were two more, bottom-up, on the gallows abaft the mainmast, and, unless I was greatly mistaken, I could make out the longboat stowed on top of the main hatch, with the jollyboat in her. But I could not be certain of this, for the vessel's decks seemed to be lumbered up most unaccountably just in that part of her. ...
— Overdue - The Story of a Missing Ship • Harry Collingwood


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