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stops down

stops down is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 stops down

What is stops down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stops down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stop down.

Words near stops down in the dictionary

  1. stops and smells the roses
  2. stops at nothing
  3. stops by
  4. stops cold
  5. stops dead
  6. stops down
  7. stops in
  8. stops into
  9. stops it
  10. stops lead
  11. stops off

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