pathway vs stepping

pathway

noun
  • A course of action. 

  • A footpath or other path or track. 

  • A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism. 

stepping

noun
  • The act of taking a step. 

  • A specific iteration of a model of central processing unit, often distinguished by the addition or removal of features compared to earlier examples of the same processor, or the presence, or lack thereof, of specific bugs. 

How often have the words pathway and stepping occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )