"bottom-up" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President",
          "text": "The software is checked very carefully in a bottom-up fashion. First, each new line of code is checked, then sections of code or modules with special functions are verified.",
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        "Of or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from multiple small subunits to a single, large basic unit."
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          "hierarchical",
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          "progresses",
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          "_dis1": "87 13",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zìxià'érshàng de",
          "sense": "hierarchical system that progresses from multiple, small subunits to a single, large basic unit",
          "word": "自下而上的"
        },
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          "_dis1": "87 13",
          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "kai jōtatsu",
          "sense": "hierarchical system that progresses from multiple, small subunits to a single, large basic unit",
          "word": "下意上達"
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          "sense": "hierarchical system that progresses from multiple, small subunits to a single, large basic unit",
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          "text": "bottom-up management"
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        "Of or relating to a hierarchical system in which lower levels influence higher levels."
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    "bottom-up"
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  "word": "bottom-up"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zìxià'érshàng de",
      "sense": "hierarchical system that progresses from multiple, small subunits to a single, large basic unit",
      "word": "自下而上的"
    },
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      "roman": "kai jōtatsu",
      "sense": "hierarchical system that progresses from multiple, small subunits to a single, large basic unit",
      "word": "下意上達"
    },
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    "bottom-up"
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