stepper
Pronunciation: /ˈstɛ.pə(ɹ)/
The English word “stepper” has 12 meanings listed here.
noun
- A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
- A dancer.
- A dancer in a step show.
- A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
- A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
- A type of exercise machine.
- Anything that moves or advances in steps.
- A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.
- A prison treadmill.
- A foot (appendage of the leg).
- The feet of anthropomorphic animals, especially paws.
- A kind of driving rhythm or drumbeat in reggae music.
Etymology
From step + -er.
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