stepper
IPA: stˈɛpɝ
noun
- A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
- A dancer.
- (more specifically) A dancer in a step show.
- A kind of electric motor (a stepper 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.
- (colloquial, especially in the plural) A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.
- (UK, obsolete, slang, historical) A prison treadmill.
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Examples of "stepper" in Sentences
- The stepper's role in photolithography.
- The paper was moved by a stepper motor.
- A stepper motor damping control system.
- Basically, the device is a stepper motor.
- The digital signal energizes a stepper motor.
- A stepper motor controller circuit is described.
- The same signals are applied to a stepper motor.
- Some mornings it is almost like a stepper machine.
- A microprocessor controls the operation of a stepper motor.
- A stepper is a device used in the manufacture of integrated circuits.
- The coast to the east of Stepper Point is on the estuary of the River Camel.
- Computer-based slots, also known as stepper slots, were first developed in the early 1980s, nearly 30 years ago.
- For the motors and controller, I went with HobbyCNC’s 3-axis Pro driver board package with 305 oz-in stepper motors.
- I wish you had written the year you think that computer-based slots (also called stepper slots) appeared on slot floors.
- It could sure use some kind of stepper motor to raise/lower the platform though, and maybe a little arm to spread the powder.
- Gustave, forcing his weak voice, boasted of the performances of a "stepper" that he had tried that morning in the Allee des Cavaliers.
- The album itself was fairly forgettable (outside of the peppy stepper “It's Too Late To Change The Time”), save for the disc's final song — which on LPs in those days meant it was a throwaway.
- Here is one from an online treadmill site that states the largest negative being the high price of $2000. keep in mind this is a "stepper" style with the wheel in the front. the one i bought at costco is a rear-wheel (more glide, less stepping) style, same price, by nordictrack last fall.