the act of stopping something | termination of operations |
a brief stay in the course of a journey | the act of blocking |
a restraint that checks the motion of something | approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap |
an obstruction in a pipe or tube | an obstruction in a pipe or tube |
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric |
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes | something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making |
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body |
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 | |