Stop

**Stop** may refer to:

## Places
*Stop, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
* Stop (Rogatica), a village in Rogatica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

### Facilities
* Bus stop
* Truck stop, a type of rest stop for truck drivers
* *Rail stop*, colloquialism for a railway station

## Film 
* *Stop*, a 1970 American film by Bill Gunn with Marlene Clark, Anna Aries, Edward Michael Bell 
* *Stop*, a 1972 French-Canadian film by Jean Beaudin

* *Stop!*, a 2004 Hindi romantic film starring Dia Mirza
* *Stop* (2015 film) South Korean-Japanese co-production directed by Kim Ki-duk

## 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, 1988

### Songs 
* "Stop!" (Against Me! song)
* "Stop" (Bang song)
* "Stop!" (Jane's Addiction song)
* "Stop" (Omar Naber song), the Slovene entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2005
* "Stop" (Pink Floyd song)
* "Stop" (Ryan Adams song)
* "Stop!" (Sam Brown song)
* "Stop" (Sibel Redžep song)
* "Stop" (Spice Girls song)
* "Stop" (Stefanie Heinzmann song), recorded in 2009
* "Stop! In the Name of Love", a song by the Supremes
* "Stop", by AJ Mitchell
* "Stop", by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from *Take Them On, On Your Own*
* "Stop", by Clyde McPhatter, B-side of the single "The Best Man Cried"
* "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 J-Hope from *Jack in the Box*
* "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"
* "(Stop)", by the Lottery Winners from *Anxiety Replacement Therapy''

## 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

## Linguistics
*Stop consonant, a type of consonant in which you block the flow of air for a moment and suddenly release it. Also known as a plosive or an occlusive.

## Optics and photography 
* Stop, the difference of a power of 2 in the context of exposure value
** F-stops, a unit of measure of aperture
* Stop bath, a chemical used in film processing

## Arrestation devices
* Door stop
* Petzl Stop, a descender used in caving
* Train stop, a train protection device

## Halting 
* Stop sign, a traffic signal
* Full stop (full point, period), a punctuation mark
** STOP, used to replace that symbol in telegraphs, as Morse code has no method to produce it (sometimes STOP was used for a comma and FULL STOP for the period).
* Stop error, a computer error screen
* Terry stop, a brief police detention in the United States

## Other uses
* Safe Tables Our Priority, a food safety organization
* Secure Trusted Operating Program, a computer operating system
* Stop, a futuristic display typeface by Aldo Novarese
* 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
* Strategic Operations, a military, police, and medical training company in San Diego
* Stop or stopper, a specific type of card holding in one suit in the game of contract bridge (see: Glossary of contract bridge terms#stopper)

## Related pages
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* Stopper (disambiguation)
* Halt (disambiguation)