stepper

English

Etymology

step +‎ -er

Noun

stepper (plural steppers)

1. A dancer.
2. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
   • 1872, Fanny Fern, Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things:

     I marvel that these steppers upon flowers childishly make no provision for the pitfalls concealed beneath them.

3. A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
4. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
5. A step machine

Anagrams

• Teppers

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Danish

Noun

stepper c

1. indefinite plural of steppe

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stepper m

1. indefinite plural of steppe

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

stepper f

1. indefinite plural of steppe