from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun One that steps, especially in a fast or spirited manner.
noun Informal A dancer.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One who or that which steps (with a certain gait or carriage expressed or implied); specifically, a fast horse: often in composition: as, a high-stepper; that horse in a good stepper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One who, or that which, steps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A dancer.
noun A person or animal that steps energetically or high.
noun A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
noun A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting
noun a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps
noun a professional dancer
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For the motors and controller, I went with HobbyCNC’s 3-axis Pro driver board package with 305 oz-in stepper motors.
Here is one from an online treadmill site that states the largest negative being the high price of $2000. keep in mind this is a "stepper" style with the wheel in the front. the one i bought at costco is a rear-wheel (more glide, less stepping) style, same price, by nordictrack last fall.
The album itself was fairly forgettable (outside of the peppy stepper “It's Too Late To Change The Time”), save for the disc's final song — which on LPs in those days meant it was a throwaway.
The album itself was fairly forgettable (outside of the peppy stepper “It's Too Late To Change The Time”), save for the disc's final song — which on LPs in those days meant it was a throwaway.
In 1990, Kamoze had recorded a dancehall track called “Hot Stepper” with the Jamaican producer Philip “Fatis” Burrell — “Hot Stepper” being patois slang for “fugitive.”
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