stemmer
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stem•mer
(ˈstɛm ər)n.
a person or device that removes stems, as from tobacco or grapes.
[1890–95]
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| Noun | 1. | stemmer - a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" |
| 2. | stemmer - a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" | |
| 3. | stemmer - an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rule - a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | |
| 4. | stemmer - a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge tamp, tamper, tamping bar - a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | |
| 5. | stemmer - a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" |
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