stopping
61stopping distance — Total distance required to stop a motor vehicle from time driver recognizes need to stop until vehicle is standing still. Factors which control are speed of vehicle, weather, road conditions, tires, condition of brakes, etc. Usually referred to… …
62stopping or standing — A vehicle motionless in street or highway, whether or not parked. Modern Indiana Transit, Inc. v Burk, 228 Ind 162, 89 NE2d 905, 17 ALR2d 572 …
63stopping payment — The closing of a bank upon its insolvency. The act of the drawer of a check in revoking or cancelling the check, before it has been certified, accepted, or paid by the bank upon which it is drawn, by giving an unequivocal direction or instruction …
64stopping well — Same as plugging well …
65Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening — a poem (1923) by Robert Frost …
66stopping-out — stoppˈing out noun Selective use (of a protective covering against acids in etching, against light in photography) to create special effects • • • Main Entry: ↑stop …
67stopping-place — stoppˈing place noun • • • Main Entry: ↑stop …
68stopping distance — noun, pl ⋯ tances [count, noncount] : the distance that a driver needs in order to safely bring a vehicle to a complete stop …
69Optimal stopping — In mathematics, the theory of optimal stopping is concerned with the problem of choosing a time to take a particular action, in order to maximise an expected reward or minimise an expected cost. Optimal stopping problems can be found in areas of… …
70Optional stopping theorem — In probability theory, the optional stopping theorem (or Doob s optional sampling theorem) says that, under certain conditions, the expected value of a martingale at a stopping time is equal to its initial value (and also expected value at any… …
