MEANING
An electric motor designed to turn through controlled increments in response to drive signals.
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- a stepper motor drive
- stepper motor positioning
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The stepper motor advanced the stage one increment at a time.
A missed step shifted the stepper motor’s apparent position.
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- stepper motor
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular stepper motor; plural stepper motors. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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