stepping motor

1. 1.

   a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps

   Synonymsstepper

   Broadermotor

Questions about stepping motor

What does stepping motor mean?

stepping motor means "a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps".

What is another word for stepping motor?

Close synonyms include stepper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stepping motor a common word?

stepping motor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.