Stop may refer to:

Places

* Stop, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States * Stop (Rogatica), a village in Rogatica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Facilities

* Bus stop * Truck stop, a type of rest stop for truck drivers * ''Rail stop'', colloquialism for a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

Film

* ''Stop'', a 1970 American film by Bill Gunn with Marlene Clark, Anna Aries, Edward Michael Bell * ''Stop'', a 1972 French-Canadian film by Jean Beaudin * ''Stop!'', a 2004 Hindi romantic film starring Dia Mirza * ''Stop'' (2015 film) South Korean-Japanese co-production directed by Kim Ki-duk

Music

* Double stop, the act of playing two notes simultaneously * Organ stop, a component of a pipe organ * Stop (Stockhausen), a composition for orchestra by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Albums

* ''Stop'' (Don Lanphere album), and the title song, 1983 * ''Stop'' (Eric Burdon Band album), and the title song, 1975 * ''Stop'' (Franco De Vita album), 2004 * ''Stop'' (Plain White T's album), and the title song, 2001 * ''Stop!'' (album), by Sam Brown, and the title song, 1988

Songs

* "Stop!" (Against Me! song) * "Stop" (Bang song) * "Stop!" (Jane's Addiction song) * "Stop" (Omar Naber song), the Slovene entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 * "Stop" (Pink Floyd song) * "Stop" (Ryan Adams song) * "Stop!" (Sam Brown song) * "Stop" (Sibel Redžep song) * "Stop" (Spice Girls song) * "Stop" (Stefanie Heinzmann song), recorded in 2009 * " Stop! In the Name of Love", a song by the Supremes * "Stop", by AJ Mitchell * "Stop", by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from '' Take Them On, On Your Own'' * "Stop", by Clyde McPhatter, B-side of the single "The Best Man Cried" * "Stop", by Dope from ''

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'' * "Stop", by Fitz and the Tantrums from ''All the Feels'' * "Stop", by En Vogue from '' Soul Flower'' * "Stop!", by Erasure from '' Crackers International'' * "Stop", by Girls Aloud from '' Sound of the Underground'' * "Stop", by J-Hope from '' Jack in the Box'' * "Stop", by James Gang from '' Yer' Album'' * "Stop", by the Linda Lindas from '' No Obligation'' * "Stop", by Matchbox Twenty from '' Mad Season'' * "Stop", by Mega City Four from '' Sebastopol Rd.'' * "Stop", by No Angels from '' Welcome to the Dance'' * "Stop", by Stefanie Heinzmann from '' Roots to Grow'' * "Stop", by Twin Sister from " In Heaven" * "(Stop)", by the Lottery Winners from '' Anxiety Replacement Therapy'' * "S.T.O.P.", by David Guetta from ''Listen''

Medicine and anatomy

* Stop (dog), a part of a dog's skull * Stop codon, a type of RNA molecule in genetic code * STOP protein, a protein in animals * Surgical termination of pregnancy, a type of abortion

Linguistics

* Stop consonant, a type of consonant in which you block the flow of air for a moment and suddenly release it. Also known as a plosive or an occlusive.

Optics and photography

* Stop, the difference of a power of 2 in the context of exposure value ** F-stops, a unit of measure of aperture * Stop bath, a chemical used in film processing

Arrestation devices

* Door stop * Petzl Stop, a descender used in caving * Train stop, a train protection device

Halting

Stop sign A stop sign is a traffic sign designed to notify drivers that they must come to a complete stop and make sure the intersection (road), intersection (or level crossing, railroad crossing) is safely clear of vehicles and pedestrians before contin ...

, a traffic signal *

Full stop The full stop ( Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation). A ...

(full point, period), a punctuation mark ** STOP, used to replace that symbol in telegraphs, as

Morse code Morse code is a telecommunications method which Character encoding, encodes Written language, text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code i ...

has no method to produce it (sometimes STOP was used for a comma and FULL STOP for the period). * Stop error, a computer error screen * Terry stop, a brief police detention in the United States

Other uses

* Safe Tables Our Priority, a food safety organization * Secure Trusted Operating Program, a computer operating system * Stop, a futuristic display typeface by Aldo Novarese * Stop squark, in quantum physics, a supersymmetric squark which is the superpartner of the top quark * Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment, an organisation based in the United Kingdom * Strategic Operations, a military, police, and medical training company in San Diego * Stop or stopper, a specific type of card holding in one suit in the game of contract bridge (see: Glossary of contract bridge terms#stopper)