What is the meaning of stemmer?

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. ).
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