Bottom-up

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  bottom-up \bottom-up\ adj. (Computers)
     planning or building the smallest parts first; as, bottom-up
     programming. Opposite of {top-down}.
     [WordNet 1.5] Bottony

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  bottom-up
       adj : of an approach to a problem that begins  with details and
             works up to the highest conceptual level; "bottom-up
             parser"; "a bottom-up model of the reading process"
             [ant: {top-down}]