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Stemmer

noun

A worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books. Synonyms: sprigger, stripper.

A worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers.

An algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem. Synonym: stemming algorithm.

A miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge.

A device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples).

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"Stemmer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Iphition: him the chariots of the Achaians clave with their tires asunder in the forefront of the battle, and over him Achilles pierced in the temples, through his bronze-cheeked helmet, Demoleon, brave stemmer of battle, Antenor's son. No stop made the bronze helmet, but therethrough sped the spear-head and clave the bone, and the brain within was all scattered: that stroke made ending of his zeal. Then Hippodamas, as he leapt ...

— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)

Words linked to "Stemmer" : algorithmic rule, algorithmic program, sprigger, tamping bar, stem, device, worker, tamper, tamp, stripper, stemming algorithm, algorithm