"between-step" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1949, Marie Bonaparte (Princess), The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe",
          "text": "Clearly, the bottle-arms of this \"Angel\" represent, at one and the same time, the mother's breasts and the father's penis — though we should not forget the between-step of the concept of the mother's penis, [...]",
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          "text": "I do not know, nor do I care to know, whether they are a sex by themselves, a justified, because helpless, play of Nature; or even a kind of logically essential link, a between-step, as you seem to have persuaded yourself.",
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          "ref": "1963, Measurement and Control: Interpretative Reports for Management - Volume 2 - Page 10",
          "text": "Furthermore, in conjunction with various forms of pneumatic interlocking, the whole system fails safe, particularly in not holding a between-step condition."
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          "ref": "1988, Daniel Druckman, John A. Swets, Enhancing Human Performance",
          "text": "In this appendix, a within-step source of error refers to an error of either type that occurs as a result of the operations performed inside any of the boxes shown in Figure E-1; a between-step source of error refers to either type of error that occurs ...",
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