Found 2 items, similar to stemmer.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: stemmer stemmer n 1: a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books [syn: stripper, sprigger] 2: a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers 3: an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem [syn: stemming algorithm] 4: a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge 5: a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)
English → English (gcide) Definition: Stemmer Stemmer \Stem"mer\, n. One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs). [1913 Webster]