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stemmer

/stˈɛmɚ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

  1. a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
  2. a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
  3. an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
  4. a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
  5. a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)

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