Stop

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Stop may refer to:

Film

• Stop, a 1970 film by Bill Gunn
• Stop, a 1972 film by Jean Beaudin
• Stop!, a 2004 film starring Dia Mirza

Music

• Double stop, the act of playing two notes simultaneously
• Organ stop, a component of a pipe organ
• Stop (Stockhausen), a composition for orchestra by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Albums

• Stop (Don Lanphere album), and the title song, 1983
• Stop (Eric Burdon Band album), and the title song, 1975
• Stop (Franco De Vita album), 2004
• Stop (Plain White T's album), and the title song, 2001
• Stop! (album), by Sam Brown, and the title song (see below), 1988

Songs

• "Stop!" (Against Me! song)
• "Stop" (Bang song)
• "Stop!" (Jane's Addiction song)
• "Stop" (Pink Floyd song)
• "Stop" (Ryan Adams song)
• "Stop!" (Sam Brown song)
• "Stop" (Sibel Redžep song)
• "Stop" (Spice Girls song)
• Stop (Omar Naber song), the Slovene entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2005
• Stop (Stefanie Heinzmann song), recorded in 2009
• "Stop! In the Name of Love", a song by The Supremes
• "Stop", by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from Take Them On, On Your Own
• "Stop", by Dope from Life
• "Stop", by En Vogue from Soul Flower
• "Stop!", by Erasure from Crackers International
• "Stop", by Girls Aloud from Sound of the Underground
• "Stop", by James Gang from Yer' Album
• "Stop", by Matchbox Twenty from Mad Season
• "Stop", by Mega City Four from Sebastopol Rd.
• "Stop", by No Angels from Welcome to the Dance
• "Stop", by Stefanie Heinzmann from Roots to Grow
• "Stop", by Twin Sister from "In Heaven"

Medicine and anatomy

• Stop (dog), a part of a dog's skull
• Stop codon, a type of RNA molecule in genetic code
• STOP protein, a protein in animals
• Surgical Termination of Pregnancy, a type of abortion

Optics and photography

• Aperture, a structure that limits the light entering an optical system
• F-stops, a unit of measure of aperture
• Stop, a measure of exposure value
• Stop bath, a chemical used in film processing

Other uses

• Bus stop
• Door stop
• Full stop, a punctuation mark
  • STOP, used to replace the symbol in telegraphs, as Morse code has no method to produce it
• Stop, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Stop (Rogatica), a village Rogatica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Petzl Stop, a descender used in caving
• Safe Tables Our Priority, a food safety organization
• Secure Trusted Operating Program, a computer operating system
• Stop, a font designed by Aldo Novarese
• Stop consonant, a concept in linguistics
• Stop error, a computer error screen
• Stop sign, a traffic signal
• Stop squark, in quantum physics, a supersymmetric squark which is the superpartner of the top quark
• Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment, an organisation based in the United Kingdom
• Terry stop, a brief police detention in the United States
• Colloquialism for a railway station
• Train stop, a train protection device
• Truck stop, a type of rest stop for truck drivers
• Strategic Operations, a military, police, and medical training company in San Diego