Stall may refer to:
Enclosures
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Animal stall
An animal stall is an enclosure housing one or a few animals. Stalls for animals can often be found wherever animals are kept: a horse stable is often a purpose-built and permanent structure. A farmer's barn may be subdivided into animal stalls ...
, an enclosure for an animal
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Restroom stall, 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 ...
, a makeshift or mobile structures for selling market goods or serving food
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Choir stall
A choir, also sometimes called quire, is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir. It is in the western part of the chancel, between the nave and the sanctuary, which houses the altar and Church tab ...
, seating in a church for the choir
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Stalls (theatre)
A theater, theatre or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works, performing arts and musical concerts are presented. The theater building serves to define the performance and audience spaces. The facility usually is organized to provide s ...
, 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)
A stall is the slowing or stopping of a process and in the case of an engine refers to a sudden stopping of the engine turning, usually brought about accidentally.
It is commonly applied to the phenomenon whereby an engine abruptly ceases operati ...
, the unexpected or unwanted stopping of an engine
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Stall (fluid dynamics), 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 ...
, 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, a town in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia
People
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Sylvanus Stall (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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