Stride

Definitions

1. A long step in walking.
   countable
2. A surname.
3. The distance covered by a long step.
   countable
4. The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
   countable
5. A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
   uncountable

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Examples

“Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match⟳, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride⟳.”

“An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder⟳ strikes in the last⟳ two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take⟳ another purposeful stride⟳ towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have⟳ already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.”

“Rail technology advanced step by step - albeit electrification was a good stride⟳, rather than a short step.”

“This stride⟳ value is generally equal to the pixel width of the bitmap times the number⟳ of bytes per pixel, but for performance reasons it might be rounded […]”

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