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stopped down

stopped down is the simple past and past participle of stop down.

Meaning of stop down

Verb

stop down (third-person singular simple present stops down, present participle stopping down, simple past and past participle stopped down)

  1. To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number.
    • The f/stops are arranged so that as you stop down, each stop allows half the amount of light to pass through as the stop before it did.1982, Marvin J. Rosen, Introduction to photography: a self-directing approach, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 71

Questions about stopped down

What is stopped down the simple past and past participle of?
Stopped down is the simple past and past participle of stop down.

Words near stopped down in the dictionary

  1. stopped at nothing
  2. stopped by
  3. stopped clock illusion
  4. stopped cold
  5. stopped dead
  6. stopped down
  7. stopped in
  8. stopped into
  9. stopped it
  10. stopped lead
  11. stopped off

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