item-by-item
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Adjective (1)
- being or characteristic of a single thing or person“individual drops of rain”“please mark the individual pages”“they went their individual ways”Synonyms: individualsinglecase-by-caseSimilar respective, individualist, idiosyncratic, singular, one-on-oneRelates to individuality, individualismSee also separate
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
item-by-item adjective
considered one item at a time; — contrasted with using general rules for groups of items considered by their class.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5