forestep means an initial, previous, or early step; a prior stage or phase in a process or development cycle. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 80 out of 100.
Etymology
From fore- + step.
noun
- an initial, previous, or early step; a prior stage or phase in a process or development cycle“Segmentation, as a forestep to organization, involves the necessity of other foresteps as cancellations of like predecessors, as chaotifications of the separate processes without losing the increment of the power, the limitations of which constitute the lay out or type of body to be formed according to the seriations in order, class, genera, species and variety, demanded by the germ under investig”