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stemmer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun stemmer has 5 senses
- stemmer(n = noun.person) sprigger, stripper - a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books; Array is a kind of worker
- stemmer(n = noun.person) Array - a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers; Array is a kind of worker
- stemmer(n = noun.cognition) stemming algorithm - an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem; Array is a kind of algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rule
- stemmer(n = noun.artifact) Array - a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge; Array is a kind of tamp, tamper, tamping bar
- stemmer(n = noun.artifact) Array - a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples); Array is a kind of device
Derived form verb stem4
CIDE DICTIONARY
stemmer, n.
One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs). [1913 Webster]
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