plural of stop-gap

(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.

(management) Describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another.

A wholesaler serving the music industry.

(photography) Any of the discrete steps or stopping points for adjusting the aperture of a lens, either marked on a ring on the lens and adjusted by rotating that ring or marked in the display of a digital camera and adjusted by buttons or touch-sensitive controls.

plural of stop sign

(cricket) A fielding position, now confined to the amateur game, behind the wicket-keeper (so as to retrieve balls that the wicket-keeper misses); a fielder in this position

A valve that may be turned to regulate the flow of fluid through a pipe (especially water through a mains supply)

When giving directions to a person (for example, a taxi driver), indicates that he or she should stop the vehicle.

(electronics) Filtering out a specific range of electromagnetic frequencies.