What is Word Stemming?

[alka]

Please explain the term.

[AmitSood]

Stemming mainly a process that attempts to reduce a given search term to its most perfect root word.

[sangeetanegi]

stemming is the comparison of a search engine query to the root form of a word used in the query.

[Daljeet]

Stemming is the process of reducing inflected words to their word stem, base or root form generally a written word form. The stem need not be identical to the morphological root of the word.