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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 relationships linking the stepper motor position and wavelength have been obtained by averaging the results of more than 20 spectra.
Computer-driven stepper motors rotate the mirrors to obtain the desired angle of incidence.
As the semiconductor industry looks to the future, stepper manufacturers are gearing up for extreme ultraviolet lithography.
The plungers of the pumps are moved via cams by stepper motors which swing or rotate back and forth within a certain angular range.
Each probe can be moved in two directions, axis and angle, by stepper motors through a remote-control system.
The two-sided timing belt is driven by a stepper motor in synchronism with the turret.

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