0 an increase, especially one that is gradual:
1 a situation in which someone or something is praised, advertised, or talked about on the internet, in newspapers, etc.:
2 the period of preparation before something happens:
There was a lot of excitement in the build-up to the Olympics.
3 an increase in the amount of something over a period of time:
We found that the model has low statistical power when inbreeding depression is caused by the build-up of mildly deleterious alleles.
At first the build-up of military activity was relatively slow.
All argon peaks were scanned ten times and peak heights extrapolated back to the inlet time to allow for argon build-up and memory effects.
Thus, longer exposure of the villages to the institutional build-up has a positive effect on people's participation in the commons.
The phonological theory explains dyslexia by a deficit in phonological awareness which would affect the build-up of graphemephoneme correspondences.
Thus, institutional build-up seems to be a very important consideration in motivating people to participate in commons.
Rather, a frequency-dependent build-up triggering mechanisms could be imagined.
Protectionist fallacies had all been exposed, enlightenment was spreading, and landlords' resistance simply encouraged the build-up of more pressure for revenge.
