Stalling or Stallings can refer to: *Meanings derived from the term "stall", see Stall (disambiguation)

People

* Stalling (surname) * Stallings (surname)

Places

Stallings, North Carolina Stallings is a suburban town in Union and Mecklenburg counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 13,831 at the 2010 census. Geography Stallings is located at (35.089326, -80.686802). According to the United States Census ...

, a town in North Carolina * Stallings Field, an airport in North Carolina, USA *

Stallings Island Stallings Island is an archeological site with shell mounds, located in the Savannah River near Augusta, Georgia. The site is the namesake for the Stallings culture of the Late Archaic period and for Stallings fiber- tempered pottery, the oldest ...

, an archeological site in Georgia with shell mounds

Science and computing

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 ...

, in aviation and fluid dynamics, a sudden reduction in lift from exceeding a foil's critical angle of attack (such as when a plane climbs too steeply and slowly) *

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 ...

, in jet-engine aviation *

Stalling (gaming) In sports, running out the clock (also known as running down the clock, stonewalling, killing the clock, chewing the clock, stalling, time-wasting (or timewasting) or eating clock) is the practice of a winning team allowing the clock to expire thr ...

, obstruction of the flow of play while leading in a timed game *

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 *

Stallings theorem about ends of groups In the mathematical subject of group theory, the Stallings theorem about ends of groups states that a finitely generated group ''G'' has more than one end if and only if the group ''G'' admits a nontrivial decomposition as an amalgamated free produ ...

, a theorem by John R. Stallings {{Disambiguation