stepper

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

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