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stopping down

stopping down is the present participle and gerund 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 stopping down

What is stopping down the present participle and gerund of?
Stopping down is the present participle and gerund of stop down.

Words near stopping down in the dictionary

  1. stopping by
  2. stopping cold
  3. stopping dead
  4. stopping distance
  5. stopping distances
  6. stopping down
  7. stopping in
  8. stopping into
  9. stopping it
  10. stopping lead
  11. stopping off

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