From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[stepper motor] [wikipedia]
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
2. * [en]
3. A dancer .
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. [en] A dancer in a step show .
10. * [en]
11. * [en]
12. * [en]
13. A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
14. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
15. A type of exercise machine .
16. * [en]
17. Anything that moves or advances in steps.
18. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=Matthew David | title=HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications | page=58
|passage=The Age field is a numeric STEPPER tool that allows you to scroll
through a specific range of numbers.}}
1. [en] A shoe , especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for [Stepping (African-American)] .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2005 | author=Michele McKnight Baker | title=Sandpaper Sisters | publisher=FaithWalk Publishing | isbn=9781932902488 | page=33
|passage="And I would dress smack daddy down." Tawanda throws her head back,
laughing. "The other girls was all lacy-like, with high heels; I had
STEPPERS, low heels like men's spectator shoes, and pointy toes. I got
the foot for it and I got the height; I would put on the suit, the pantsuit,
go out there with my megaphone, and step—I would STEP!" She hops to her feet
and does a step or two.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2020 | author=Raven Simmons | title=The Story of Me: Part 1 Caterpillar Phase, Part 2 Cocoon Phase | publisher=Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. | isbn=9781098032470
|passage=“[...] what are you wearing tonight?” “Well, I went to the mall and
found the most amazing boots ever!” “Oh God, you and these boots. Ariel, you
could open up a shoe store as many shoes as you have.” “Shut up and look at my
new STEPPERS.”}}
1. [en] A prison treadmill .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1883 | author=George Atkins Brine | title=The King of the Beggars | page=164
|passage=On the treadmill we were shut up in little boxes, almost pitch dark,
and the handrail to catch hold of when treading the mill was so high [...] I
refused point blank, one morning, to go on the STEPPER on plea of illness,
[...]}}
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** Danish
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** Norwegian Bokmål
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** Norwegian Nynorsk
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