Stall may refer to:
Enclosures
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Animal stall
A stall is an enclosure housing one or a few animals. A building with multiple stalls for horses is called a stable. A stable or barn which houses livestock is subdivided into stalls or pen (enclosure), pens. Freestanding stalls may be construct ...
, an enclosure for an animal
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Restroom stall
A public toilet, restroom, bathroom or washroom is a room or small building with toilets (or urinals) and sinks for use by the general public. The facilities are available to customers, travelers, employees of a business, school pupils or pris ...
, an enclosure providing privacy to the user of a single toilet in a public restroom
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Market stall
A market stall or a booth is a structure used by merchants to display and house their merchandise in a street market, fairs and convention (meeting), conventions. Some commercial marketplaces, including market squares or flea markets, may permit m ...
, a makeshift or mobile structures for selling market goods or serving food
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Choir stall
A choir, also sometimes called quire, is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir. It is in the western part of the chancel, between the nave and the sanctuary, which houses the altar and Church tab ...
, seating in a church for the choir
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Stalls (theatre)
A theater, theatre or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works, performing arts, and musical concerts are presented. The theater building serves to define the performance and audience spaces. The facility usually is organized to provide ...
, the ground floor seats in a theatre/cinema (closer to or directly in front of the stage)
Science and computing
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Stall (engine)
A stall is the slowing or stopping of a process, and, in the case of an engine, refers to a sudden stopping of the engine turning, usually brought about accidentally.
It is commonly applied to the phenomenon whereby an engine abruptly ceases oper ...
, the unexpected or unwanted stopping of an engine
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Stall (fluid dynamics)
In fluid dynamics, a stall is a reduction in the lift coefficient generated by a foil as angle of attack exceeds its critical value.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', p. 486. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997 ...
, the fairly sudden loss of effectiveness of an aerodynamic surface
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Compressor stall
A compressor stall is a local disruption of the airflow in the compressor of a gas turbine or turbocharger. A stall that results in the complete disruption of the airflow through the compressor is referred to as a compressor surge. The severity o ...
, the sudden loss of compression in a jet engine
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Pipeline stall
In the design of instruction pipeline, pipelined computer processors, a pipeline stall is a delay in execution of an instruction set, instruction in order to resolve a hazard (computer architecture), hazard.
Details
In a standard classic RISC pip ...
, in computing
Places
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Stall, Austria
Stall is a municipality in the district of Spittal an der Drau in the Austrian state of Carinthia
Carinthia ( ; ; ) is the southernmost and least densely populated States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its ...
, a town in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia
People
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Sylvanus Stall
Sylvanus Stall (18 October 1847 – 6 November 1915) "Stall, Sylvanus" (Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1900) was a United States Lutheran pastor, most famous for his 1897 sex education and anti-masturbation book ''What A Young Bo ...
(1847–1915), American pastor
Art and entertainment
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The Stall (Seinfeld)
"The Stall" is the 76th episode of the NBC sitcom ''Seinfeld''. It is the 12th episode of the fifth season, and first aired on January 6, 1994. In this episode, Jerry tries to keep Elaine from finding out that his girlfriend Jane is the same w ...
, a TV episode
*"Stall", a 1997 song by
Sarge
See also
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Stalling (disambiguation)
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