stemmer

Other forms: stemmers

Definitions of stemmer

1. noun

   a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
   synonyms: sprigger, stripper

   type of:

   worker

   a person who works at a specific occupation
2. noun

   a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
   type of:

   worker

   a person who works at a specific occupation
3. noun

   a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)
   type of:

   device

   an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
4. noun

   a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
   type of:

   tamp, tamper, tamping bar

   a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
5. noun

   an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
   synonyms: stemming algorithm

   type of:

   algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rule

   a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem