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Stemmer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
  2. 2
    a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) wordnet
  3. 3
    a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge wordnet
  4. 4
    an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem wordnet
  5. 5
    a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers wordnet
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  1. 6
    a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books wordnet

Etymology

From stem + -er.

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