Stopping in a sentence as a noun

"So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping?

As I realized he wasn't stopping I thought to myself, "at least all my code is checked in and pushed".True story.

Craigslist isn't stopping Padmapper from being built, its stopping Padmapper from using Craigslist data.

It turns out that what was stopping people from switching to Excel was that everybody else they worked with was still using Lotus 123.

There is nothing stopping them from opening a brokerage in their most popular markets and simply copying Redfin's model.

Natural prodigies are still showing up now and then, and stopping them from recording great music would be more challenging than allowing them to do so!

If someone desires to use customary measurements out of sheer habit from long-established custom, no one is stopping that either.

My license works, I'm stopping the evil doers!Audience member: If you ask for a separate license, can you use it for evil?Douglas: That's an interesting point.

The process manager then defines a basic framework for stopping, starting, restarting and checking status for services, at a minimum.

Guess what - nobody is stopping this guy or anyone else from producing a few hundred of educational videos with great content and making it available for free.

And since bitcoin is completely unregulated, there's nothing really stopping anyone from manipulating the market.

Wikipedia is so capricious in the enforcement of the rules, and there's so little stopping people from breaking the rules, that deletions do seem arbitrarily and inconsistently enforced.

Hm, Am I the only one who spends hours in vim each day with ~15 lines in my .vimrc and almost zero plugins?At some point I think I realized that no matter how feature-rich my editor was, the main thing stopping me from writing good and fast code was _thinking_, not configuring my text editor.

Stopping definitions

noun

fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members

See also: fillet

noun

the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch; "the violinist's stopping was excellent"