shortstop-bath
stop bath
noun Photography.
an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
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| —n | |
| baseball | |
| a. the fielding position to the left of second base viewed from home plate | |
| b. the player at this position | |
| stop bath | |
| —n | |
| 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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