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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.

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Nearby words

stoor, stoozing, stop, stop and frisk, stop at nothing, stop bath, stop bead, stop by, stop chorus, stop clause, stop codon

Origin of stop bath

First recorded in 1915–20
Also called shortstop, shortstop bath.
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

British Dictionary definitions for stop bath

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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