Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that steps, especially in a fast or spirited manner.
  • noun Informal A dancer.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which steps (with a certain gait or carriage expressed or implied); specifically, a fast horse: often in composition: as, a high-stepper; that horse in a good stepper.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, steps.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A dancer.
  • noun A person or animal that steps energetically or high.
  • noun A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
  • noun A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting
  • noun a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps
  • noun a professional dancer

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Examples

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  • It could sure use some kind of stepper motor to raise/lower the platform though, and maybe a little arm to spread the powder.

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  • 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.

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