stepped

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of step

adj

1. (not-comparable)Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs.

   “a stepped key”

   “a stepped gear”

   “steeply stepped stairs”

   “He informs us that the unusual cars with stepped floors are not those of the original pair of lines […].”

   “To improve the appearance of the stepped roof a glass-fibre fairing, moulded to the corner radius, extends for the full length between the two cabs.”