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tamper meaning

EN[ˈtæm.pə(ɹ)]
WTamper
  • Tamper can mean:
  • Tamp, a device used to compact or flatten an aggregate or other powdered or granular material, like ground coffee or gravel
  • A tool used to pack tobacco into a smoking pipe, as well as to flatten or scoop the ash; usually nail-shaped and sometimes combined into a pipe tool
  • Ballast tamper, a machine that tamps railroad track ballast
  • Tamper, or neutron reflector, a shell of dense material surrounding the fission core of a nuclear fission weapon
a railway ballast tamper
a railway ballast tamper
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Morphemes
      • Suffixes
        • Words by suffix
          • Words suffixed with -er
      • Nouns
        • Countable nouns
          • Agent nouns
          • Verbs
            • Intransitive verbs
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          1. en tampers
          2. en tampered
          3. en tamperer
          4. en tamperers
          5. en tamperest
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of tamper for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "tamper" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and an agent noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb.
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