short-stop bath

1. 1.

   an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer

   Synonymsstop bathshort-stop

   Broaderdeveloper

Questions about short-stop bath

What does short-stop bath mean?

short-stop bath means "an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer".

What is another word for short-stop bath?

Close synonyms include stop bath, short-stop. 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 short-stop bath a common word?

short-stop bath 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.