stemmer

Meanings

Noun

• a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
• a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
• an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
• a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
• a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)

Synonyms

sprigger, stemming algorithm, stripper