stopping power

British  

noun

1. physics a measure of the effect a substance has on the kinetic energy of a particle passing through it

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stopping power

The brakes have good stopping power and the pedal effort is easily modulated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

If the brakes’ levers get “really close to your handlebar” when you pull them back to stop, that’s a sign the brakes have lost stopping power and you need to get them checked, Korver said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2023

The hydraulic fluid that makes the system work absorbs water from the air, potentially reducing stopping power.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2021

Front and rear 180mm Tektro Aries mechanical disc brakes provided plenty of stopping power, even in loose terrain.

From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2019

Or, again, if the encounters indeed differ in number, then some compensating effect must exist whereby a direction of lesser linear density involves greater stopping power in the molecule encountered, and vice versa.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly