Crossword clues for stepper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stepper \Step"per\, n. One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"horse with a showy gait," 1835, agent noun from step (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A dancer. 2 A person or animal that steps energetically or high. 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
WordNet
n. a professional dancer [syn: hoofer]
a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps [syn: stepping motor]
a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting [syn: high stepper]
Wikipedia
A stepper is a device used in the manufacture of integrated circuits (ICs) that is similar in operation to a slide projector or a photographic enlarger. Steppers are an essential part of the complex process, called photolithography, that creates millions of microscopic circuit elements on the surface of tiny chips of silicon. These chips form the heart of ICs such as computer processors, memory chips, and many other devices.
A stepper is a device used in the manufacture of integrated circuits.
Stepper may also refer to:
- Stepper motor, a brushless, synchronous electric motor that can divide a full rotation into a large number of steps
- Wilhelm Stepper (born 1899), Austro-Hungarian novelist
- Hot Stepper as referred to in Canadian musician Snow's song
- Stair stepper, Step machine or Stepping machine is used for physical exercise
- Steppers (music) style of reggae
- SXS or Strowger switch, an early electromechanical telephone switching system
Usage examples of "stepper".
Well-shod, with white forefeet, the horse looked a stayer, though not a patch on Stepper.
It was, in truth, but he did not want to ride Stepper or Stayer into what lay ahead.
The acidheads, thrash metal goose steppers and MTV heads were ecstatic over the news that there would be as many free prescriptions for their little mental ballets: Prozac, Melleril, Dalmane sleeping agents, Darvon for headaches and migraines.
Stepper was finished for the day he gave me a brief tour of Beale Street, which had not changed very much since its heydey at the turn of the century.
What it amounts to is that I had to learn to unstep the steppers by force.
Then there had been the pleasurable excitement of choosing a showy grey stepper for May's brougham (the Wellands had given the carriage), and the abiding occupation and interest of arranging his new library, which, in spite of family doubts and disapprovals, had been carried out as he had dreamed, with a dark embossed paper, Eastlake book-cases and "sincere" arm-chairs and tables.
They'd figured out that almost every part of the massive production floor, the size of an exhibition hall and filled with steppers, etchers, epitaxy machines, planarisers, deposition equipment and all kinds of physical science kit with strange names, was monitored by CCTV, but nobody had thought to mount a camera inside the ion-implantation machines.
Meanwhile, the ostlers, adjured to fig out two lively ones, poled up the two most lethargic animals in the stables, and assured Gerard (with a wink at the post-boy) that they would be found to be prime steppers.
You didn’t say whether you wanted Stepper or Stayer, so I saddled — ”At Perrin’s golden-eyed glare, Kenly Maerin shied back into the dun stallion he was leading.
Again the voice from the tower reverberated around the hillsides, announcing the parade of carriages, and a dozen turn-outs came around the bend: plain and fancy carriages drawn by high steppers, the drivers and passengers in period costumes.