Stem, stem, or STEM commonly refers to:

  • Plant stem, a structural axis of a vascular plant
  • STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Stem, 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 (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 in path (computing) usually stands for a filename without last extension (file.tar.gz is file.tar)
  • Stem, part of a watch
  • STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Other uses

  • Stem, a detail of stemware
  • 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

  • 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