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stride

/stɹaɪd/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To walk with long steps.
  2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
  3. To pass over at a step; to step over.
  4. To straddle; to bestride.
  5. A long step in walking.
  6. The distance covered by a long step.
  7. The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
  8. 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.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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