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

Word History and Origins

Origin of T-stop¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Times

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.

From Chicago Tribune

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!

From Project Gutenberg

The flute is the most facile of all orchestral wind instruments; and the device of double tonguing, the quick repetition of notes by taking a staccato T-stop in blowing, is well known.

From Project Gutenberg