Stem

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Stem or STEM most commonly refers to:

• Plant stem, a structural axis of a vascular plant
• Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Stem or STEM can also refer to:

Language and writing

• Word stem, part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning
  • Stemming, a process in natural language processing
• Stem (music), in music notation, the vertical lines directly connected to the note head
• Stem (typography), the main vertical stroke of a letter
• Stem, the opening of a multiple choice question

Music and audio

• Stem (audio), a collection of audio sources mixed together to be dealt with downstream as one unit
• Stem (music), a part of a written musical note
• Stem mixing and mastering, a method of mixing audio material
• The Stems, an Australian garage punk band
• "Stem" (DJ Shadow song), 1996
• "Stem" (Ringo Sheena song), 2003
• "Stem", a song by Hayden from the 1995 album Everything I Long For
• "Stem", a song by Static-X from the 1999 album Wisconsin Death Trip
• "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", or "Die Stem", the national anthem of South Africa during the apartheid era

Science, technology and transportation

• Scanning transmission electron microscopy, a type of microscopy
• Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler, free software
• Stem, part of a compound variable in the Rexx computer programming language
• Stem (bicycle part), connecting the handlebars to the steerer tube of a bicycle fork
• Stem (ship), the most forward part of a boat or ship's bow
• Stem, part of a watch

Other uses

• Stem (glass), the stem of a drinking glass
• Stem (lesbian), or soft butch, who exhibits some stereotypical butch traits
• Stem (skiing), a technique in skiing
• Stem, North Carolina, U.S., a town
• STEM.org, an American multinational education company
• Stemming, a term in climbing
• Upgrade (film), a 2018 film, originally released as STEM, featuring an AI chip called STEM

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Stem
• All pages with titles containing Stem
• Stemm (disambiguation)
• STEM Academy (disambiguation)
• Stem cell, an undifferentiated biological cell that can differentiate into specialized cells
• Stem group, or crown group, in phylogenetics
• Main stem, the primary downstream segment of a river

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