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stop bath
noun
, Photography.
- an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
stop bath
noun
- a weakly acidic solution used in photographic processing to stop the action of a developer on a film, plate, or paper before the material is immersed in fixer
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stop bath1
First recorded in 1915–20
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