Usually means: Reducing words to base forms.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word stemming:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. stemming: Merriam-Webster
  2. stemming, stemming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stemming: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stemming: Vocabulary.com
  5. Stemming, stemming: Wordnik
  6. stemming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. stemming: Wiktionary
  8. stemming: Dictionary.com
  9. stemming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Stemming: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Stemming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Stemming, stemming (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. stemming: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. stemming: FreeDictionary.org
  15. stemming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stemming: Legal dictionary
  2. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stemming: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. stemming: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. stemming: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stemming: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stemming: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Stemming: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stemming: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Stemming: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stemming)

noun:  (nautical) Movement against a current, especially a tidal current.
noun:  A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.
noun:  (by extension) To include a term's inflections as part of a search engine's search.
noun:  (climbing) 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.

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