stop-action

noun

stop-ac·​tion ˈstäp-ˈak-shən 

often attributive

: stop-motion

Examples of stop-action in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lucy got as close as 600 miles from the five-mile-long, two-mile-wide rock, providing new and more accurate measurements of its size, along with striking stop-action footage, with each image in this string taken about two seconds apart. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Dec. 2025

The Boston artist projects patterns on boulders or a large boat propeller, using stop-action animation to suggest aquatic currents or glacial movements. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024

For roughly two years, Connelly has been on a mission to track down every interesting historical tool, book, clock, photo, pencil sharpener, cotton sample and stop-action motion picture camera still lurking in the thousands of rooms that make up the USDA. — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023

Ages 6+ The Nightmare Before Christmas Tim Burton's brilliant stop-action Halloween tale is a classic. — Christin Perry, Parents, 22 Aug. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for stop-action

• abstraction
• attraction
• compaction
• contraction
• detraction
• diffraction
• distraction
• exaction
• extraction
• impaction
• inaction
• infraction