ramp-up

  • 31ramp — i. A defined paved area, on a land airport, intended to accommodate aircraft for purposes of loading or unloading passengers or cargo, refueling, or maintenance. Also called an apron or a tarmac. ii. The sharp edged wedge with a sloping wall… …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 32ramp — I. /ræmp / (say ramp) noun 1. a sloping surface connecting two different levels. 2. a short sloping track, road, etc. 3. a short concave slope or bend, as one connecting the higher and lower parts of a banister at a landing or of the top of a… …

  • 33ramp — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French ramper to crawl, climb, rear, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German rimpfan to bend, wrinkle more at rumple Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. a. to stand or advance menacingly with… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 34ramp up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms ramp up : present tense I/you/we/they ramp up he/she/it ramps up present participle ramping up past tense ramped up past participle ramped up to increase something such as a rate or level, especially the rate… …

    English dictionary

  • 35ramp — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a slope or inclined plane, esp. for joining two levels of ground, floor, etc. 2 movable stairs for entering or leaving an aircraft. 3 an upward bend in a stair rail. 4 Brit. a transverse ridge in a road to control the speed of… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 36ramp — [18] A ramp is etymologically something you ‘climb’ up. The word was borrowed from French rampe, a derivative of the verb ramper ‘climb’, hence ‘slope’. This goes back to a Frankish *rampōn, and was borrowed into English in the 13th century as… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 37ramp — noun 1》 a sloping surface joining two different levels.     ↘a movable set of steps for entering or leaving an aircraft.     ↘N. Amer. an inclined slip road leading to or from a main road or motorway. 2》 Brit. a transverse ridge in a road to… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 38ramp-up — /ˈræmp ʌp/ (say ramp up) noun a sudden increase in the level of operation: a ramp up to meet the deadline …

  • 39ramp — [18] A ramp is etymologically something you ‘climb’ up. The word was borrowed from French rampe, a derivative of the verb ramper ‘climb’, hence ‘slope’. This goes back to a Frankish *rampōn, and was borrowed into English in the 13th century as… …

    Word origins

  • 40Ramp-Up — Unter Ramp up versteht man die Phase im Lebenszyklus einer neuen Software oder einer neuen Software Veröffentlichung zwischen dem Entwicklungsende und der allgemeinen Marktfreigabe. Dabei wird die Software in der Regel bei ausgewählten Kunden… …

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