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Stemming

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Stemming is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of stem.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of stem.

More Meanings

  1. (nautical) Movement against a current, especially a tidal current.
  2. A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.
  3. (by extension) To include a term's inflections as part of a search engine's search.
  4. (climbing) The technique of bridging between two holds with hands and/or feet, applying forces to each in opposing directions in order to brace oneself in position.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include caulescent, cauline, stemless, curbing, diking, flowing.

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