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stop list

stop list noun: a list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.

Noun

stop list (plural stop lists)

  1. A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.
    • If you equip your search engine with a stop list containing a few common words such as "a", "the", and "and", you can decrease the full-text index size by about 20%.
  2. A list of people who subscribed to a publication (e.g. newspaper) but no longer wish to receive it.
  3. A list of the stops found on a particular organ.
    • The history of the small organ is poorly documented; the earliest known stop list, written by the Lübeck organ builder Theodore Vogt, dates from about 1845.1987, Kerala J. Snyder, Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck, page 81

Forms of stop list

pluralstop lists
alternative formstoplist

Questions about stop list

What does stop list mean?
Stop list means a list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.
What part of speech is stop list?
Stop list is a noun.
What is the plural of stop list?
The plural of stop list is stop lists.

Words near stop list in the dictionary

  1. stop lamps
  2. stop lead
  3. stop light
  4. stop lights
  5. stop line
  6. stop list
  7. stop lists
  8. stop log
  9. stop logs
  10. stop loss
  11. stop loss order

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