stepper

English

Etymology

step + -er

Noun

stepper (plural steppers)

  1. A dancer.
  2. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
    • 1872, Fanny Fern, Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things
      I marvel that these steppers upon flowers childishly make no provision for the pitfalls concealed beneath them.
  3. A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
  4. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
  5. A step machine

Anagrams


Danish

Noun

stepper c

  1. indefinite plural of steppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stepper m

  1. indefinite plural of steppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

stepper f

  1. indefinite plural of steppe
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