Stepper

Definition: Stepper

Stepper

Noun

1. A professional dancer.

2. A horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting.

Date "stepper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Domain	Definition
Electrical Engineering	The photo equipment used to transfer a reticule pattern onto a wafer. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stepper

Synonyms: high stepper (n), hoofer (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	'Sampson' Champion High Stepper (1899)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Ultratech Stepper Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Stepper (reference) The High Stepper (reference) ULTRATECH STEPPER, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Osmani Stepper [CD-SINGLE] (reference) Upbeat Stepper (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		However, Korean manufacturers obtain many of the components and parts, such as mechanisms (e.g., R/W magnetic heads, stepper motors, actuators, controllers, and precision components) from foreign suppliers in the Southeast Asian nations, such as Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Stepper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Stepper" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	87.5%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Country	Name
USA	Ultratech Stepper Inc.
	(more examples...)

Expressions using "stepper": high stepper ♦ mask stepper ♦ wafer stepper. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "stepper": stepper-motors.
	Ending with "stepper": High-stepper.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "stepper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		步进. (various references)

Danish		stepper, waferstepper (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper). (various references)

Dutch		stepper, wafer stepper (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper), repeteercamera (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper). (various references)

Finnish		moniasemoinnissa käytettävä litografialaite (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper), askelvalotin. (various references)

French		répéteur (mask stepper, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper), photorépéteur (mask stepper, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper), photoréducteur-répéteur (mask stepper, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper). (various references)

German		Wafer-Stepper (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper), Waferstepper. (various references)

Greek		βηματίζων, πατών (treader), αποτυπωτής. (various references)

Italian		fotoripetitore (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper). (various references)

Pig Latin		epperstay

Portuguese		processador passo a passo (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper). (various references)

Russian		шаговый (crossbar). (various references)

Spanish		fotorrepetidor (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper), fotorreductor-repetidor. (various references)

Swedish		stegningskamera (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper), stegningsanordning, skivstepper (mask stepper, photo repeater, step and repeat camera, wafer stepper). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "stepper": steppers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "stepper": sidestepper. (additional references)
	Words containing "stepper": sidesteppers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Stepper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schepper, seppa, sheepper, shepper, skeppe, staper, stapper, stepe, steppa, Steppler, stipper, strepera, stuper. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "stepper" (pronounced ste"per)
3	-e" p er	leper, pepper.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-p-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: pester, peters, preset, steppe.
	-2 letters: ester, peeps, peers, perps, perse, peter, prees, preps, prese, prest, reest, repps, reset, speer, spree, steep, steer, stere, strep, terse, trees.
	-3 letters: erst, peep, peer, pees, peps, perp, pert, pest, pets, pree, prep, rees, repp, reps, rest, rete, rets, seep, seer, sept, sere, step, tees, tree.
	-4 letters: ere, ers.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-p-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: percepts, perpents, precepts, preempts, prepaste, pretapes, pretypes, steppers.
	+2 letters: appetiser, dapperest, peptizers, peripters, prepasted, prepastes, preppiest, properest, stoppered.
	+3 letters: appetisers, appetizers, epistrophe, leptospire, notepapers, papeteries, peripeties, preceptors, preemptors, prestamped, properties, prophetess, prospected, puppeteers, puppetries, snippetier, stepparent, suppertime, wastepaper.
	+4 letters: appreciates, apprentices, crowstepped, epistrophes, leptospires, overstepped, peppermints, peppertrees, perceptions, percipients, peripatuses, peripeteias, perpetrates, perpetuates, perspective, photosphere, pluperfects, precomputes, preemptions, prepayments, prepositive, presumptive, propellents, proprieties, prospective, repopulates, sidestepper, slipperiest, stepparents, superpolite, suppertimes, treehoppers, troposphere, unstoppered, wastepapers, wiretappers.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
stepper motor	379	stepper machine	9
stepper	173	bipolar stepper motor	8
stair stepper	58	stepper home	8
stepper motor controller	56	311 edge stepper	8
mini stepper	54	stepper z80	7
stepper motor driver	41	denise austin mini stepper	7
stepper motor control	29	equipment exercise stepper	6
servo and stepper system	24	hot stepper	6
surplus stepper motor	16	stepper motor driver circuit	6
stepper exercise	16	controller ic motor stepper	6
ultratech stepper	16	control kit stepper	6
stepper drive	12	controlling motor stepper	6
aerobic stepper	12	stepper used	6
stepper control	12	reebok stepper	5
fitness stepper	11	austin denise stepper	5
stepper tread	10	motor stepper vexta	5
stepper motor circuit	10	control motor stepper two	5
stepper motor drive	9	exercise machine stepper	5
stepper controller	9	bay e motor stepper	5
elliptical stepper	9	miniature stepper motor	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Stepper

Definition: Stepper

Stepper

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Specialty Definition: Stepper

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