Stall may refer to:
Enclosures
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Animal stall, an enclosure for an animal
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Restroom stall
A public toilet, restroom, public bathroom or washroom is a room or small building with toilets (or urinals) and sinks for use by the general public. The facilities are available to customers, travelers, employees of a business, school pupils ...
, an enclosure providing privacy to the user of a single toilet in a public restroom
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Market stall
A market stall or a booth is a structure used by merchants to display and house their merchandise in a street market, fairs and conventions. Some commercial marketplaces, including market squares or flea markets, may permit more permanent stal ...
, a makeshift or mobile structures for selling market goods or serving food
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Choir stall, seating in a church for the choir
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Stalls (theatre), the ground floor seats in a theatre/cinema (closer to or directly in front of the stage)
Science and computing
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Stall (engine), the unexpected or unwanted stopping of an engine
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Stall (fluid dynamics)
In fluid dynamics, a stall is a reduction in the lift coefficient generated by a foil as angle of attack increases.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', p. 486. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997. This occurs when th ...
, the fairly sudden loss of effectiveness of an aerodynamic surface
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Compressor stall A compressor stall is a local disruption of the airflow in the compressor of a gas turbine or turbocharger. A stall that results in the complete disruption of the airflow through the compressor is referred to as a compressor surge. The severity of t ...
, the sudden loss of compression in a jet engine
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Pipeline stall
In the design of pipelined computer processors, a pipeline stall is a delay in execution of an instruction in order to resolve a hazard.
Details
In a standard five-stage pipeline, during the decoding stage, the control unit will determine whe ...
, in computing
Places
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Stall, Austria
Stall is a municipality in the district of Spittal an der Drau in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
Geography
Stall lies in the central Möll Valley, between the Goldberg Group on the north and the Kreuzeck Group
The Kreuzeck Group is a mountain ...
, a town in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia
People
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Sylvanus Stall
Sylvanus Stall (18 October 1847 – 6 November 1915) "Stall, Sylvanus" (Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1900) was a United States Lutheran pastor, most famous for his 1897 sex education and anti- masturbation book ''What A Young B ...
(1847–1915), American pastor
Art and entertainment
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The Stall (Seinfeld)
"The Stall" is the 76th episode of the NBC sitcom '' Seinfeld''. It is the 12th episode of the fifth season, and first aired on January 6, 1994.
Plot
In a movie theater restroom, Elaine, realizing her stall does not have any toilet paper, asks th ...
, a TV episode
*"Stall", a 1997 song by
Sarge
See also
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Stalling (disambiguation)
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