Serving to stop; designed to stop

(Music) A knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
In music, a knob which controls a register on an organ or a manual (keyboard) on some harpsichords, enabling the player to alter the instrument's tone quality in various ways. See also registration.

1. A device for arresting or limiting motion
2. The act of stopping; the state of being stopped; check

1. The act of stopping something; SYN. stoppage.
2. The event of something ending; SYN. halt.
3. A spot where something halts or pauses
4. A brief stay in the course of a journey; SYN. stopover, layover.

1. To cause to stop
2. To come to a halt, stop moving; SYN. halt.
3. To interrupt a trip; SYN. stop over.
4. To stop from happening or developing; SYN. halt, block, kibosh.

An acid bath used to stop the action of a developer; SYN. short-stop, short-stop bath.

In asynchronous transmission, a bit that signals the end of a character. In early electromechanical teleprinters, the stop bit provided time for the receiving mechanism to coast back to the idle position and, depending on the mechanism, had a duration of 1, 1.5, or 2 data bits. See also asynchronous transmission. Compare parity bit, start bit.
A signal following a character or block that prepares the receiving device to receive the next character or block.
bit used in asynchronous communications to indicate the end of a piece of data.

A consonant produced by stopping air at some point and suddenly releasing it; SYN. stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive.

To reduce the effective aperture of (a lens) by means of a diaphragm