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English noun: stemmer

1. stemmer (person) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books


Synonymssprigger, stripper


Broader (hypernym)worker

2. stemmer (person) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers


Broader (hypernym)worker

3. stemmer (cognition) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem


Synonymsstemming algorithm


Broader (hypernym)algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rule

4. stemmer (artifact) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge


Broader (hypernym)tamp, tamper, tamping bar

5. stemmer (artifact) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)


Broader (hypernym)device









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