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means A motorized kitchen appliance with a fixed base that beats, whisks, or kneads ingredients in a bowl, freeing up your hands while it does the work.

from Straightforward compound: it's a mixer that stands on its own, as opposed to the handheld kind you grip and steer yourself. The lineage traces to early 20th-century electric mixers developed for commercial bakeries, whose planetary mixing action (the beater spins on its own axis while also orbiting the bowl) got miniaturized for home kitchens — most famously popularized by a certain stand mixer brand that debuted around the 1930s and became so dominant its name nearly became generic for the whole category, the way 'Kleenex' did for tissues.