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The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.
Neil Turok

Meaning of "step change" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STEP CHANGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STEP CHANGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Step change is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STEP CHANGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of step change in the English dictionary

The definition of step change in the dictionary is a significant change, esp an improvement.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STEP CHANGE

step
step aerobics
step by step
step dance
step down
step function
step in
step on
step on it
step on the gas
step out
step out of line
step out with
Step Reebok
step up
step up to the plate
step-by-step
step-down
step-down transformer
step-in

WORDS THAT END LIKE STEP CHANGE

bill of exchange
bureaux de change
change
climate change
costume change
exchange
foreign exchange
information exchange
interchange
ion exchange
Lange
needle exchange
oil change
part exchange
part-exchange
rate of exchange
re-change
short-change
small change
stock exchange
telephone exchange

Synonyms and antonyms of step change in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «step change» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STEP CHANGE

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The translations of step change from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «step change» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

阶跃变化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cambio de paso
570 millions of speakers

English

step change
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कदम परिवर्तन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تغيير الخطوة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шаг изменения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mudança de passo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পদক্ষেপ পরিবর্তন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le changement de l´étape
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perubahan langkah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sprung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ステップ変化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단계 변화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Langkah owahan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bước thay đổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

படிநிலை மாற்றம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाऊल बदल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Adım değişimi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cambio di passo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skokowa zmiana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

крок зміни
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

schimbare pas
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βήμα αλλαγής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stap verandering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stegändring
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trinnvis endring
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of step change

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STEP CHANGE»

The term «step change» is regularly used and occupies the 88.116 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about step change

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QUOTES WITH «STEP CHANGE»

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Neil Turok
The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STEP CHANGE»

Discover the use of step change in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to step change and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Eight Step Change Model
Is your organization planning a large-scale change initiative?
Geri McArdle, 2006
2
Step Change Total Quality: Achieving World Class Business ...
This book shows senior management how to implement TQM with clear explanations of the principles behind it.
P. Spenley, 1995
3
One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
The essential guide to kaizen—the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady steps—is now repackaged as an impulse paperback with a dazzling new cover that speaks to its proper positioning as a self-help/inspiration ...
Robert Maurer, 2014
4
The Global Step Change - Lifeworth Annual Review of ...
newspapers and fashion magazines worldwide (see “responsible luxury” on page 51). This attention coincided with leading luxury groups like L'Oreal, which owns Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren, mapping out their own targets for energy, ...
5
Only Trends Matter: A Step Change in Management Accounting
Only Trends Matter - A step change in management accounting This is not just a book for accountants; it is directed to all managers in all types of organization, commercial, public, charitable or social, that receive regular profit and loss ...
David Willcox, 2013
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Industrial Process Identification and Control Design: ...
When adding the step change in the proposed test, the process output trend should be monitored beforehand. If the initial process output, y.t0/, has a decreasing trend, i.e., Py.t0 /<0, a positive step change to the process input (u) is suggested, ...
Tao Liu, Furong Gao, 2011
7
The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes
Since this test identifies only the largest step change in a time series, a further test for data sets in which multiple change points occur was applied (Lanzante, 1996). The standard precipitation index (SPI), a simple and effective tool for ...
D. Glen George, 2009
8
Fundamentals of Polymer Engineering
The amorphous phase, however, exhibits a secondary transition temperature of extreme significance, the so-called glass transition temperature, Tg. It is named secondary (in spite of primary importance), due to the fact that a step-change of ...
Arie Ram, 1997
9
Recent Progress in Bioconversion of Lignocellulosics
The concept involves two-stage processing of biomass, a low-temperature stage and a high-temperature stage. They found that variation in the temperature during the process, especially a step change from uniform low to uniform high, gives ...
G.T. Tsao, 1999
10
Global Energy Transformation: Four Necessary Steps to Make ...
The cycle of learning that is described in the model for organizational learning is reiterated several times through the e-step change model, so that at each step and perhaps more than once for each step, the cycle is gone through, individual ...
Mats Larsson, 2009

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STEP CHANGE»

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Step Change in Safety splits from Oil & Gas UK
Les Linklater, executive director for Step Change in Safety, said: “In 2007 Step Change in Safety became a subsidiary of Oil & Gas UK, but the model led to ... «Energy Voice, Jan 15»
2
ICL Makes A Step Change In Its Global Phosphate Business By …
ICL's transaction with Yunnan Yuntianhua represents the next significant execution step of ICL's "Next Step Forward" strategy. It will increase ICL's phosphate ... «MarketWatch, Dec 14»

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