Stop

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The word stop has several possible meanings in the English language, but most commonly means to cease moving.

Additionally, stop, STOP, or stops may refer to:

• Safe Tables Our Priority, a non-profit organization in the United States that works to make food safe from contamination
• Secure Trusted Operating Program, an operating system used by the XTS-400
• STOP AIDS project, a non-profit organization established in 1985 that works to prevent HIV transmission among all gay and bisexual men in San Francisco
• Stops (Dynamic Range), the amount of contrast between black and white in video, film, and still photography
• A stop consonant in linguistics (also known as a plosive or occlusive)
• Stop squark, the supersymmetric partner of the top quark, in particle physics
• Stop codon in genetic code
• Full stop, a punctuation mark known in the U.S. as a "period" and shortened to stop in telegraph messages
• The point on an animal's head at which the muzzle meets the forehead
• Blue Screen of Death, an error in Microsoft Windows or Windows-based operating systems
• Stop, a brand name climbing device made by Petzl
• S.T.O.P. for Surgical Termination of Pregnancy is essentially synonymous with Dilation and evacuation, Dilation and curettage or a Surgical Abortion procedure.
• Sequential Thematic Organization of Publications (STOP)
• Simultaneous time on top, military jargon for when where all disparate assets arrive on target simultaneously despite having different characteristics.

• In Photography:
  • Aperture, a structure that limits the diameter of a light path in an optical system
  • F-stops, a unit of measure of aperture
  • Exposure (photography), a relative measure of exposure
  • Stop bath, an acidic chemical that halts film development

• In film:
  • Stop (film), a 1970 film directed by Bill Gunn
  • Stop (film), a 1972 film directed by Jean Beaudin
  • Stop! (film), a 2004 Indian film starring Dia Mirza

[edit] Music

• Organ stop, one or more ranks of pipes used together to make a particular sound on a pipe organ; also the control used to select them
• Double stop, stopping multiple strings on a stringed instrument

• Songs:
  • "Stop" (Omar Naber song) by Omar Naber
  • "Stop" (Pink Floyd song) by Pink Floyd
  • "Stop" (Spice Girls song) by the Spice Girls
  • "Stop" (Ryan Adams song) by Ryan Adams
  • "Stop" (Bang song) by Bang
  • "Stop" by the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • "Stop" by Death Angel
  • "Stop" by Don Lanphere
  • "Stop" by the Plain White T's
  • "Stop!" (Sam Brown song) by Sam Brown, notably covered by Jamelia
  • "Stop!" (Jane's Addiction song) by Jane's Addiction
  • "Stop!" (Against Me! song) by Against Me!
  • "Stop! In the Name of Love" by The Supremes
  • "Stop!" by Erasure
  • "Stop, hey, what's that sound?", the famous first line of the chorus to "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield, which is sometimes mistaken as its title

• Albums:
  • Stop (Franco De Vita album) by Franco De Vita
  • Stop (Plain White T's album) by the Plain White T's
  • Stop (Don Lanphere album) by Don Lanphere
  • Stop! (album) by Sam Brown

[edit] See also

• Bus stop, trolleybus stop and tram stop, places where the bus or tram stops for people to get on and off
• Door stop, a wedge to stop a door from closing when you want it open
• Stop sign, a traffic sign informing drivers to make a temporary stop
• Terry stop, in U.S. law, a stop-and-frisk law enforcement procedure less intrusive than an arrest, so probable cause is not required
• Truck stop, an eating establishment on a major trucking route with a large carpark for truck drivers to stop and refresh themselves, and often with other amenities available
• Stop light, a group of lights: red, amber or green
• Stop, a font designed by Aldo Novarese
• STOPP, Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment

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