stride

B2 · Upper Intermediate Countable noun

n. an improvement or progress in the way something is developing.

n. significant progress or an advance in development, often used in the plural 'strides'.

“The company has made great strides in improving its technology this year.”

“Medical science has made enormous strides in the treatment of rare genetic disorders over the last decade.”

C2 · Proficiency Uncountable noun Music Technical

n. a style of jazz piano where the left hand moves quickly between low notes and chords.

n. a style of jazz piano playing in which the left hand characteristically alternates a bass note on the first and third beats with a chord on the second and fourth.

“The pianist played a lively stride version of the classic song.”

“Mastering stride piano requires immense coordination, as the left hand must leap accurately across the keyboard while the right hand improvises.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Computing Technical

n. the distance between pieces of data in a computer's memory.

n. the number of memory locations between successive elements in an array or pixels in a bitmap.

“The programmer adjusted the stride to make the image process faster.”

“If the stride is not correctly aligned with the cache line size, the software's performance may degrade significantly during large-scale data processing.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate

v. to walk with long, confident steps.

v. to walk with long steps, typically in a purposeful or confident manner.

“She strode across the room to shake his hand.”

“The CEO strode into the boardroom with an air of absolute authority, immediately silencing the gathered executives.”