half-stop

Even the half-stop of a semicolon is too long a pause on the idea that they'll read your submission!

Cutting Out the However Splice 2009

As she came to her half-stop of surprise, startled, he took his courage in two hands, and, lifting his hat, stepped to her side.

The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

As she came to her half-stop of surprise, startled, he took his courage in two hands, and, lifting his hat, stepped to her side.

The Conquest of Canaan 1905

You won't half-stop and think and talk about rare plants and dicky-birds and farinaceous fiduciary interests.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

-- Any deviation from the formula of the perfect cadence -- either in the choice of some other than the tonic chord, or in the omission of the keynote in either (or both) of the outer parts -- weakens the force of the interruption, and transforms the cadence into a lighter, more transient, point of repose, for which the term semicadence (or half-stop) is used.

Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Percy Goetschius 1898

To achieve colors that really pop under a heavy overcast, set your flash about a half-stop less than the camera's setting.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

For starters, light loss … a half-stop of loss is currently the market standard, so this was a necessary improvement.

FreshDV 2009

Flash exposure compensation is between -2 to 1 EV in half-stop steps.

DigitalCameraReview.com Digital Camera News and Reviews 2009

It has been announced in 1989, and currently it is out of production, replaced by the half-stop less bright 50mm f/1.2 L USM.

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2009

When we ran our Imatest "deep analysis," which we usually reserve for SLRs, we found its dynamic range consistently measured about a half-stop less than that of the D40x.

Imaging Resource News Page 2009