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Wiktionary

  1. stemmingnoun

    Movement against a current, especially a tidal current.

  2. stemmingnoun

    A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.

  3. stemmingnoun

    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.

Wikipedia

  1. Stemming

    In linguistic morphology and information retrieval, stemming is the process of reducing inflected (or sometimes derived) words to their word stem, base or root form—generally a written word form. The stem need not be identical to the morphological root of the word; it is usually sufficient that related words map to the same stem, even if this stem is not in itself a valid root. Algorithms for stemming have been studied in computer science since the 1960s. Many search engines treat words with the same stem as synonyms as a kind of query expansion, a process called conflation. A computer program or subroutine that stems word may be called a stemming program, stemming algorithm, or stemmer.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Stemming

    of Stem

Wikidata

  1. Stemming

    In linguistic morphology and information retrieval, stemming is the process for reducing inflected words to their stem, base or root form—generally a written word form. The stem need not be identical to the morphological root of the word; it is usually sufficient that related words map to the same stem, even if this stem is not in itself a valid root. Algorithms for stemming have been studied in computer science since 1968. Many search engines treat words with the same stem as synonyms as a kind of query broadening, a process called conflation. Stemming programs are commonly referred to as stemming algorithms or stemmers.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stemming in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stemming in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of stemming in a Sentence

  1. Ashley Davis:

    Kids with Down syndrome are already at a disadvantage, as far as speech is concerned, they already have speech delays — so to add hearing loss to that, the odds are stacked against Ashley Davis. Tonya Nussbaum, an audiologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, said Sarah Grace Davis has conductive hearing loss stemming from structural problems with Sarah Grace Davis ear. The hearing nerve is working fine.

  2. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

    Consistently watch your trademark for potential threats to its integrity stemming from both other businesses and cultural conflicts.

  3. Koichi Yoshikawa:

    The fall in markets is stemming from worries about China, oil and so on. And now people think policymakers will try to stop that with monetary easing, the problem is that monetary easing has succeeded in supporting financial markets but not necessarily the real economy.

  4. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby:

    Those agencies have asked for National Guard personnel to provide support at traffic control points in and around the District to help the USCP and DC government address potential challenges stemming from possible disruptions at key traffic arteries.

  5. Ravi Rajaram:

    While reducing resident hours may intuitively suggest that patient care may improve, these potential gains may in part be mitigated by communication failures and adverse events stemming from increased transitions in patient care.

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