stop bath

1. 1.

   an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer

   Synonymsshort-stopshort-stop bath

   Broaderdeveloper

Questions about stop bath

What does stop bath mean?

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

What is another word for stop bath?

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

stop bath is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.