laddering
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An interview technique developed in the 1960s in which the interviewer systematically drills down for greater detail at each step.
Uncountable
noun
An investment strategy where the investment is spread over multiple bonds or term deposits with rolling maturity dates.
Uncountable
noun
A regular pattern of oligonucleotide sizes on electrophoretic gels, resulting from the fragmentation of DNA strands during cell death.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "ploughings and ladderings"
- "With upward laddering like this, you're going from the bottom of the hierarchy up towards the top, and what you'll typically find is that as you go up the number of branches decreases, so you'll keep hitting the same responses and the same high level goals and values eventually, more or less regardless of where you started from."
- "For example, tobacco cell cultures grown at 5oC, resulted in a loss of viability relative to control cells and exhibited DNA laddering (Koukalova et al., 1997)."