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Definition of Stopping point

1. Noun. The temporal end; the concluding time. "They were playing better at the close of the season"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stopping Point

Literary usage of Stopping point

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Machine Tool Operation by Henry D. Burghardt (1919)
"For all other even threads, close the split nut at any %" distance from the stopping point, if the number of threads on the screw is even; if lead screw is ..."

2. Adaptive Statistical Procedures and Related Topics: Proceedings of a by Herbert Robbins, John Van Ryzin (1986)
"... warm: When one knows that a point (x,y) is an optimal stopping point then one knows that S(x,y) = R(x,y), and one can simply check that Z(x,y) > R(x,y). ..."

3. Current Issues in Statistical Inference: Essays in Honor of D. Basu by Dev Basu, Malay Ghosh, Pramod K. Pathak (1992)
"The observation is a path starting at (0, 0) and ending at some stopping point (a, b). Since every path ending at (a, b) has probability pa(l - p) ..."

4. Dairy Technology: A Treatise on the City Milk Supply, Milk as a Food, Ice by Christian Larsen, William M. White (1913)
"... stopping point. — When frozen to the consistency of thick syrup the ice cream is dipped or poured out into packing cans, which have been previously iced ..."

5. Dairy Technology: A Treatise on the City Milk Supply, Milk as a Food, Ice by Christian Larsen, William M. White (1913)
"... stopping point. — When frozen to the consistency of thick syrup the ice cream is dipped or poured out into packing cans, which have been previously iced ..."

6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"It is better to make the first reduction at such a distance from the stopping point that a full application of the brakes will not be necessary. ..."

7. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1913)
"Held that, as the last walk was not necessitated by his being ejected from the train at a point other than a usual stopping point, injuries resulting ..."

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