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Stop Killing Games

Stop Killing Games (Stop Destroying Videogames) is a consumer-rights campaign started by Ross Scott in 2024 to keep purchased video games playable after support ends.

Stop Making Sense (1984) is Jonathan Demme's concert film of Talking Heads, shot at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, released October 19, 1984, and restored in 4K by A24 for its 2023 40th anniversary.

Stop Making Sense (album)

Stop Making Sense is Talking Heads' 1984 live soundtrack album to Jonathan Demme's concert film, recorded December 1983 at Hollywood's Pantages Theater; reissued complete in 2023 with over two million copies sold.

Stop motion

Stop motion (stop-frame animation) is a filmmaking technique photographing physical puppets, clay figures, or objects one frame at a time with tiny incremental movements, creating motion on playback; known from Aardman's Wallace and Gromit, Ray Harryhausen, and Laika.

Stop Online Piracy Act

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261, was a 2011 US anti-piracy bill by Rep. Lamar Smith that would have ordered ISPs, payment processors, and search engines to block foreign infringing sites; it died after January 2012 protests.

Stop sign

Stop sign: regulatory traffic sign requiring a complete stop; US MUTCD R1-1 red octagon with white STOP legend, standardized 1915 Detroit origin, 1954 red color; Vienna Convention B2a/B2b worldwide.

Stop squark

The stop squark, or top squark (symbol t̃), is the hypothetical spin-zero superpartner of the top quark predicted by supersymmetry; its loops would cancel the top quark's contribution to the Higgs mass.

Stop the Clocks

Stop the Clocks (2006) is Oasis's first best-of compilation, an 18-track double album hand-picked by Noel Gallagher. Notable for omitting its own title song and all of Be Here Now; sold 1.5 million in the UK.

Stop the War Coalition

The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) is a British anti-war group founded in 2001, best known for organizing the massive February 2003 protest against the Iraq invasion.

Stop-and-frisk in New York City

Stop-and-frisk in New York City is a police practice allowing officers to stop, question, and frisk people on reasonable suspicion, peaking at nearly 700,000 stops in 2011.

STOP-BANG questionnaire

The STOP-Bang questionnaire is an 8-item yes/no tool that estimates obstructive sleep apnea risk, developed for surgical patients by Frances Chung and colleagues in 2008.

STOP-COVID study

STOP-COVID (Study of the Treatment and Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19), NCT04343898, a US multicenter ICU cohort of 5,154 lab-confirmed COVID-19 adults; distinct from the tofacitinib and fluvoxamine trials of the same name.

Stop-Loss (film)

Stop-Loss (2008) is Kimberly Peirce's Iraq War drama starring Ryan Phillippe as Sgt. Brandon King, a soldier ordered back to duty under the Army's stop-loss policy who goes AWOL. Paramount release, $10.9M gross, 64% on Rotten Tomatoes.

STOP-PD trial (NCT00056472)

STOP-PD (NCT00056472), Study of the Pharmacotherapy of Psychotic Depression: NIMH-funded 12-week RCT of 259 patients showing olanzapine plus sertraline achieved higher remission (41.9% vs 23.9%) than olanzapine alone for psychotic depression.

Stop-signal task

The stop-signal task is a behavioral paradigm that measures response inhibition by interrupting a go task with a stop signal, estimating covert stop-signal reaction time.

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is a 1992 American action comedy directed by Roger Spottiswoode, in which Sylvester Stallone's detective is partnered with his meddling mother, played by Estelle Getty.

Stop! That! Train!

Stop! That! Train! is a 2026 American disaster-movie spoof comedy directed by Adam Shankman, starring Ginger Minj, Jujubee, and RuPaul as President Gagwell aboard the runaway Glamazonian Express; released by Bleecker Street June 12, 2026.

Stopes Patera

Stopes Patera, a 169-km-wide volcanic patera on Venus at 42.6°N 46.5°E, IAU-named in 1991 for Marie Stopes, English paleontologist (1880–1959); fourth largest of Venus's 73 named paterae.

Stopfenreuth

Stopfenreuth, a village in Engelhartstetten, Lower Austria, on the Danube floodplains; home of the Roman bridgehead fort "Ödes Schloss" (first proven in Austria, 2024) and cradle of the Donau-Auen National Park after the 1984 occupation.

Stoping (mining)

Stoping is an underground mining method that extracts ore by opening large rooms, called stopes, in rock strong enough to stand unsupported, unlike caving methods.

Stopmotion (film)

Stopmotion (2023) is a British psychological horror film and the feature debut of director Robert Morgan, starring Aisling Franciosi as animator Ella Blake, whose puppet film blurs with reality after her mother's death; 93 minutes, Sitges Special Jury Prize, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

STOPP-CIS study

STOPP-CIS (NCT01663129), a Canadian 6-year observational cohort led by Leanne Ward at CHEO, followed 406 children starting glucocorticoids for leukemia, rheumatic disease, or nephrotic syndrome, defining pediatric steroid osteoporosis.

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Stopped-flow kinetics

Stopped-flow kinetics is an experimental technique for fast reactions in solution, in which reactants are rapidly mixed, the flow is halted, and the reaction is followed spectroscopically.

Stopped-flow spectroscopy

Stopped-flow spectroscopy is a rapid-mixing technique in which reactants are mixed, the flow is abruptly stopped, and the reaction is followed spectroscopically in a fixed cell.

Stopper (plug)

A stopper, also known as a bottle stopper, is a closure held inside a vessel's bore rather than over it, seen in wine bottles, laboratories, pharmaceutical vials, and pipework.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost's 16-line lyric poem, written 1922, published March 7, 1923 in The New Republic and in the Pulitzer-winning collection New Hampshire; a traveler pauses to watch snow-filled woods, closing with "miles to go before I sleep."

Stopping power

Stopping power is the ability of a firearm projectile to incapacitate a target with a single hit, a concept in wound ballistics studied mainly for handgun ammunition.

Stopping power (particle radiation)

Stopping power, written -dE/dx, is the average energy lost by a charged particle per unit path length through matter, underlying dosimetry, particle detectors, and charged-particle cancer therapy.

Stopping time

A stopping time, also known as a Markov time or optional time, is a random time at which a stochastic process may be stopped, decidable from observed information alone.