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stop bath

noun

, Photography.
  1. an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.


stop bath

noun

  1. a weakly acidic solution used in photographic processing to stop the action of a developer on a film, plate, or paper before the material is immersed in fixer


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stop bath1

First recorded in 1915–20

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