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US
/ˈbɑtəˌməp/
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ADJECTIVE
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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
bottom-up parser
How To Use bottom-up In A Sentence
- The most prominent of these lessons is that bottom-up infrastructure succeeds and sometimes even spectacularly.
- The parser works in bottom-up, breadth-first manner and uses a chart for efficiency.
- What's fascinating is that the contest could have only happened through top down means, but enabled bottom-up participation.
- Beam robotics is about taking the bottom-up approach, to start from mastering the simple bug and moving up from there.
- The better approach is a combination of the top-down and the bottom-up approach.
- It is important that a supercomputing roadmap be driven both top-down by application needs and bottom-up by technology barriers and that mission needs as well as science needs be incorporated.
- With the bottom-up development approach, you start with one or more database objects to create and expose as Web service operations.
- Massive bottom-up infrastructure sprouted all over the world in bits and pieces, proliferated, and a new paradigm was created.
- There is a lot of enthusiasm among those writing about innovation, and among those working in R&D settings, for bottom-up activism or "intrapreneurship. The Five Myths Of Innovation
- But again, I don't believe that top-down and bottom-up systems necessarily have to stand in opposition; the two models may ultimately prove consilient.