Adjective

In a device of the kind described, a plurality of platforms normally horizontally disposed in staired arrangement, each of said platforms comprising a pair of elongated platform elements

They are variously described as simple, compound, hanging, tandem or two-staired , intersecting and nivation cirques.

There is also speculation that the name Galata comes from the Italian word for descent (calata ), an appropriate description of the steep and staired streets that slope down the hill from Beyoglu to the Golden Horn.