Usually means: Reduction in power or position.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word step-down:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. step-down: Merriam-Webster
  2. step-down: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. step-down, step-down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. step-down: Vocabulary.com
  5. Step-Down, step-down: Wordnik
  6. step-down: Wiktionary
  7. step-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. step-down: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. step-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. step-down: Dictionary.com
  11. step-down: Rhymezone
  12. step-down: FreeDictionary.org
  13. step-down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. step-down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. step-down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. step-down: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (step-down)

▸ adjective:  That decreases in stages
▸ adjective:  (of a transformer etc) That reduces a voltage

Similar:
decrease, diminution, reduction, stepdown, diminuent, decrescent, downstrike, down, descending, turndown, more...

Opposite:
step-up

Types:
transformer, converter, more...

Phrases:
step-down transformer, step-down lease, step-down note, more...



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Similar:
decrease, diminution, reduction, stepdown, diminuent, decrescent, downstrike, down, descending, turndown, more...

Opposite:
step-up

Types:
transformer, converter, more...

Phrases:
step-down transformer, step-down lease, step-down note, more...



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