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Stemmer

One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).

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Algorithm 76% connected

The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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Tamp 76% connected

In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion…

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Tamper 76% connected

One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Stem 74% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Stem 74% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Stripper 92% connected

One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.

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Algorithmic program noun · 86% connection

a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

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Algorithmic rule noun · 86% connection

a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

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Classifier noun · 86% connection

an algorithm that implements classification.; "Classifier performance depends greatly on the characteristics of the data to be classif…

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Computer database noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

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Directory noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)

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Electronic database noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

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Electronic information service noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

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Genetic algorithm noun · 86% connection

(computing) a search procedure using techniques modelled on the biological theory of natural selection.; "Also, in searching a large s…

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Menu noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a list of options available to a computer user

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On-line database noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

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Simplex algorithm noun · 86% connection

a method for solving problems in linear programming that tests adjacent vertices of the feasible set in sequence so that at each new v…

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Simplex method noun · 86% connection

a method for solving problems in linear programming that tests adjacent vertices of the feasible set in sequence so that at each new v…

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Sorting algorithm noun · 86% connection

an algorithm for sorting a list

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Stemming algorithm noun · 86% connection

an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

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Recursion noun · 85% connection

(mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation; also, the repeated appl…

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Access time noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; "acce…

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Accumulator register noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register

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Alpha test noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a first test of an experimental product (such as computer software) carried out by the developer

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-ation unknown · 78% connection

A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of sta…

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-ed unknown · 78% connection

The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented…

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-en unknown · 78% connection

A suffix corresponding to AS. -en and -on, formerly used to form the plural of verbs, as in housen, escapen.

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-ing unknown · 78% connection

A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a se…

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-ish unknown · 78% connection

A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.

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Active adjective · 78% connection

Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

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Augment noun · 78% connection

A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

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Auxiliary sing. · 78% connection

A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, d…

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Conjugation noun · 78% connection

A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner.

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Deponent adjective · 78% connection

Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.

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Desiderative adjective · 78% connection

Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.

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Down adverb · 78% connection

From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright po…

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Epidermis verb · 78% connection

The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As…

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