1. bit by bit - Adverb
2. bit by bit - Adjective Satellite
one thing at a time
in a gradual manner
a little bit at a time
Source: WordNetbit-by-bit
I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks. Alan Sillitoe
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. Octavio Paz
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment. Jon Lech Johansen
Bit by bit the logic of the network will overtake every we atom we deal with. Kevin Kelly (editor)
Fill the moral vacuum, the rational vacuum, we must; reconvert a population soaked in the spirit of materialism to the spirit of humanism we must, or bit by bit we too will take on the visage of our enemy, the neo-heathens. Adlai Stevenson II
Little by little and bit by bit. English Proverb