T-stop

[ tee-stop ]

noun

, Photography.

1. a camera lens aperture setting calibrated to a T number.

T-stop

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of T-stop¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

By-an-by just kept on growing, lowin t stop sometimeby-an-by.

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I must go home and I sha'n't stop for more than twenty-four hours—worse luck!

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But if he shows his face here again in Dreymarsh, I sha'n't stop to arrest him.

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Tisnt a thing a religious man would practise; an Ill do something, says he, t stop it!

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I'm going to light a pipe; but, mind, we sha'n't stop here very long.

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