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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 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. 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. 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. |
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