Stop

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Stop may refer to:

Places

  • Stop, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Stop (Rogatica), a village in Rogatica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Facilities

  • Bus stop
  • Truck stop, a type of rest stop for truck drivers
  • Rail stop, colloquialism for a
    railway station

Film

  • Stop, a 1970 American film by Bill Gunn with Marlene Clark, Anna Aries, Edward Michael Bell
  • Stop, a 1972 French-Canadian film by Jean Beaudin
  • Stop!, a 2004 Hindi romantic film starring Dia Mirza
  • Stop (2015 film)
    South Korean-Japanese co-production directed by Kim Ki-duk

Music

Albums

Songs

Medicine and anatomy

  • Stop (dog)
    , a part of a dog's skull
  • Stop codon, a type of RNA molecule in genetic code
  • STOP protein, a protein in animals
  • Surgical termination of pregnancy
    , a type of abortion

Linguistics

  • Stop consonant, a type of consonant in which you block the flow of air for a moment and suddenly release it. Also known as a plosive or an occlusive
    .

Optics and photography

Arrestation devices

Halting

  • Stop sign, a traffic signal
  • Full stop (full point, period), a punctuation mark
    • STOP, used to replace that symbol in telegraphs, as Morse code has no method to produce it (sometimes STOP was used for a comma and FULL STOP for the period).
  • Stop error
    , a computer error screen
  • Terry stop, a brief police detention in the United States

Other uses

  • Safe Tables Our Priority
    , a food safety organization
  • Secure Trusted Operating Program
    , a computer operating system
  • Stop, a futuristic display typeface by Aldo Novarese
  • Stop squark, in quantum physics, a supersymmetric squark which is the superpartner of the top quark
  • Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment
    , an organisation based in the United Kingdom
  • Strategic Operations, a military, police, and medical training company in San Diego
  • Stop or stopper, a specific type of card holding in one suit in the game of contract bridge (see: Glossary of contract bridge terms#stopper)

See also

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