stepper

noun

step·​per ˈste-pər How to pronounce stepper (audio)
: one (such as a fast horse or a dancer) that steps

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Thankfully, Mother Nature did us a solid and designed our steppers to be resilient. Amy Wilkinson, SELF, 16 Jan. 2025 Achieving the best pattern alignment on each wafer for multiple pattern exposures required that a wafer be routed back to the same stepper for exposure of each layer in the process chain. IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2024 Also: steppers, pole dancers, a drum line, Vegas showgirls, and Keys’s football-field-size cape. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2024 Relative to contact masking, the stepper promised lower sensitivity to particulate contamination, because the size of the shadow of any stray particle would be reduced by 10:1. IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stepper 

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of stepper was in 1835

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“Stepper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stepper. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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