Staircase Pattern

A descriptive term for a pattern seen when a multimeric protein is separated into lanes in an electrophoretic gel—each step corresponds to a different length of protein, as may be seen with von Willebrand factor multimers

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However, if the robot is not facing the stairs, but facing, for example, a wall, then the measured scan gives a one big step in range data, as shown in Figure 14(b), which is clearly distinguishable from the staircase pattern.

Design of sTetro: A Modular, Reconfigurable, and Autonomous Staircase Cleaning Robot

Stepped gears, which have gears of different diameters layered in a staircase pattern, and pinion gears with shafts are machinable thanks to the prevention of interference between grinding wheels and workpieces.

MHI Develops World's First Technology Enabling One Grinding Machine to Perform High-speed, High-Precision Machining of Diverse Gear Types

It's the most striking experimental demonstration so far of the extremely general devil's staircase pattern, he says.