a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | the act of stopping something |
electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves | a brief stay in the course of a journey |
a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | a restraint that checks the motion of something |
(anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | an obstruction in a pipe or tube |
| a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens |
| (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes |
| a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it |
| a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations |
| the event of something ending |
| a spot where something halts or pauses |
| the state of inactivity following an interruption |