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T-stop

[ tee-stop ]

noun

Photography.
  1. a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.


T-stop

noun

  1. a setting of the lens aperture on a camera calibrated photometrically and assigned a T-number
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of T-stop1

First recorded in 1955–60
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But between the Supreme Court’s willingness to bend the knee to Trump in last year’s insurrection cases and the fact that the man who will soon be appointing judges doesn’t believe in the law in the first place, we are about to see a highly accelerated version of Cannon’s style of can’t-stop-won’t-stop self-help that doesn’t even attempt to root itself in actual doctrine or legal structure.

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Even as this plague summer ends in fires and floods, Drake is still Drake, which means his new album sounds like his past three, which means he can’t-stop-won’t-stop rapping about the superiority and loneliness of the rich, which means too many people will continue mistaking his effervescent grievance-pop as some demented soundtrack for an American Dream that no longer exists.

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On Friday, Halfhill had students slide across the gym floor in their socks and practice a T-stop before they moved over to a wall to practice the hip hit.

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This remarkable actor flawlessly delivers a monologue — a rhyming, tour de force, just-can't-stop logorrhea — that occupies something like 400 lines of script on the page and takes at least a half-hour to deliver on a Broadway stage.

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Even w'en eh git tuh de station, eh stan' when it gets to the station, it stands tuh de station an' seh: "Kyan-stop! at the station and says: "Can't-stop!

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TSST-stop system