stemming

Movement against a current, especially a tidal current.

Noun

  1. Movement against a current, especially a tidal current.
  2. A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.
  3. To include a term's inflections as part of a search engine's search.
  4. 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.

Forms

stemmings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of stem