T-stop

American

[tee-stop] / ˈtiˌstɒp /

noun

Photography.

a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.

T-stop British

noun

a setting of the lens aperture on a camera calibrated photometrically and assigned a T-number

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Etymology

Origin of T-stop

First recorded in 1955–60

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T-stop

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 Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various

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