stemmer Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

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