Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bottom-up
adjective
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■ NOUN
approach
▪ The better approach is a combination of the top-down and the bottom-up approach.
▪ For the purposes of the current project a bottom-up approach is an obvious one to use.
▪ There are two main ways of forecasting earnings: the bottom-up approach and the top-down approach.
▪ In the bottom-up approach, investment analysts produce earnings forecasts on the basis of detailed research into the firm's activities.
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▪ It is paralleled by a sharing of what I have called the bottom-up dreams of the businesses themselves.
▪ Massive bottom-up infrastructure sprouted all over the world in bits and pieces, proliferated, and a new paradigm was created.
▪ Strong, bottom-up commitment is the support pillar for all the rest.
▪ The better approach is a combination of the top-down and the bottom-up approach.
▪ The most prominent of these lessons is that bottom-up infrastructure succeeds and sometimes even spectacularly.
▪ They point out that bottom-up statistical methods are efficient from a computational point of view, but exhibit poor error correcting capabilities.
▪ This is not to say that there was no top-down activity or that all bottom-up activity will produce meaningful infrastructure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bottom-up
bottom-up \bottom-up\ adj. (Computers) planning or building the smallest parts first; as, bottom-up programming. Opposite of top-down.
Wiktionary
bottom-up
a. of, or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from multiple, small subunits to a single, large basic unit
WordNet
bottom-up
adj. of an approach to a problem that begins with details and works up to the highest conceptual level; "bottom-up parser"; "a bottom-up model of the reading process" [ant: top-down]
Wikipedia
Bottom-up
Bottom-up may refer to:
- Bottom-up (finance), fundamental analysis beginning with specific businesses, regardless of their industry
- Bottom Up (company), a Japanese video game developer and publisher
- Bottom-up parsing, a computer science strategy
- Bottom-up proteomics, a laboratory technique involving proteins
- Bottom Up Records, the record label that released The Greatest Story Never Told and other albums
- Bottom-up testing, an approach to integrated testing where the lowest level components are tested first
- Top-down and bottom-up design, strategies of information processing and knowledge ordering
- Bottom-up approach of the Holocaust
- In sailing or boating, a capsize, turtling or turn turtle
Usage examples of "bottom-up".
Silliman Turley got out and with Felipe's help got the canoe ashore and turned bottom-up.