diapason stop

1. 1.

   either of the two main stops on a pipe organ

   Synonymsdiapason

   Broaderorgan stop

Questions about diapason stop

What does diapason stop mean?

diapason stop means "either of the two main stops on a pipe organ".

What is another word for diapason stop?

Close synonyms include diapason. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diapason stop a common word?

diapason stop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.