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stoppage |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stoppage \Stop"page\, n. The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action also the state of being stopped; as the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stoppage n 1: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "he spent the entire stay in his room" [syn: {arrest}, {check}, {halt}, {hitch}, {stay}, {stop}] 2: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: {blockage}, {block}, {closure}, {occlusion}, {stop}] 3: the act of stopping something "the third baseman made some remarkable stops" [syn: {stop}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: stoppage /sto'p*j/ n. Extreme {lossage} that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was caused by a {fried} transformer." From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: stoppage /sto'p*j/ Extreme {lossage} that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was caused by a {fried} transformer." [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-24)
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