(photography) To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number.

plural of stop sign

plural of stop light

One of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in certain hydraulic works. Particularly used in canals as a temporary measure following a major leakage.

The moulding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.

plural of comfort stop

A pause in a long road journey so that travellers can go to the toilet

(cycling) The situation, legal in certain jurisdictions, where a cyclist treats a stop sign as a yield sign, and a red light as a stop sign.

plural of Idaho stop

plural of non-stop