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stopping [′stäp·iŋ]

(mining engineering)

A brattice, or more commonly, a masonry or brick wall built across old headings, chutes, or airways to confine the ventilating current to certain passages, or to lock up the gas in old workings, or to smother a mine fire.

(nucleonics)

The decrease in kinetic energy of an ionizing particle as a result of energy losses along its path through matter.

stopper, stopping

A compound, such as putty, used to fill holes in wood, metal, etc.

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No references found			Stopping a day at Annapolis, he visited the shop of a well-known optician and ordered seven powerful telescopes, one for every day in the week. Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context He was reading a book, and thinking of what he was reading, and stopping to listen to Agafea Mihalovna, who gossiped away without flagging, and yet with all that, all sorts of pictures of family life and work in the future rose disconnectedly before his imagination. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context He was gobbling mincemeat, meatbone, bread, cheese, and pork pie, all at once: staring distrustfully while he did so at the mist all round us, and often stopping - even stopping his jaws - to listen. Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context			stope fillings stope hoist stope pillar stoper Stopes Stopes, Marie Carmichael Stoph, Willi Stoping stoping drill stoping ground stoplight stoplog stopoff stoppage Stoppage of Pay to Cover Deficiency Stoppard Stoppard, Sir Tom Stoppard, Tom stopped chamfer stopped dado stopped end stopped flute stopped mortise stopped-flow method Stopper stopping stopping capacitor stopping knife stopping off stopping out stopping potential stopping power stopping range stopping rule stopwatch stopwater stopwork Stora Sjofallet Stora Sjöfallet storable propellant storage storage address register storage administrator storage allocation Storage Allocation and Coding Program storage and retrieval system storage area storage array storage at the edge storage battery storage battery locomotive			stopped the show stopped the show stopped up stopped up stopped up stopped up stopped up stopped-flow method Stopped-Out stopped-up stopped-up stopper stopper stopper stopper stopper Stopper (knot) Stopper bolt stopper knot stopper pad stoppered stoppered stoppered stoppering stoppering stoppering stoppers stoppers stoppers stoppers stopping Stopping and Range of Ions in Matter stopping at nothing stopping at nothing stopping at nothing stopping at nothing stopping at nothing stopping by stopping by stopping by stopping by stopping by stopping capacitor Stopping curve Stopping curve refunding rate stopping dead stopping dead stopping dead stopping dead stopping dead Stopping down Stopping down Stopping down Stopping down Stopping down stopping ears stopping ears stopping ears stopping ears stopping ears stopping knife

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