This page gives a glossary of the most important terms in the search engine nomenclature.
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Stemming: A transforming algorithm that reduces any of the forms of a word such as "runs, running, ran" to its elemental root ("run") or that does the inverse, that is, it takes a root word and expands it to all of its various form.