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What is a stepper?

What is a stepper? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A dancer.
  2. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
  3. A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
  4. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
  5. A step machine
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The actual amount of the foil delivered would be controlled by the stepper motor.
Unlike earlier reductions, this particular transition requires a major design shift in stepper optics from refractive to reflective.
Spectra were acquired before the stepper motor began moving, throughout the 6-blanch cycle, and after the blanch cycle was completed.
Computer-driven stepper motors rotate the mirrors to obtain the desired angle of incidence.
The two-sided timing belt is driven by a stepper motor in synchronism with the turret.
The relationships linking the stepper motor position and wavelength have been obtained by averaging the results of more than 20 spectra.

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