stepper

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
2. A dancer.
3. A dancer in a step show.
4. A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
5. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
6. A type of exercise machine.
7. Anything that moves or advances in steps.
8. (colloquial, especially, in-plural) A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.
9. (UK, historical, obsolete, slang) A prison treadmill.

Sinonieme

stepping motor

high stepper

hoofer

divding head

tapper

tap dancer

treader

Etimologie (Engels)

From step + -er.