stopings
plural of stoping
• postings, sign-post, signpost, stop sign, stopsign
Source: Wiktionary
Stop"ing, n. (Mining)
Definition: The act of excavating in the form of stopes.
Stope, n. Etym: [Cf. Step, n. & v. i.] (Mining)
Definition: A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
Stope, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoping.] (Mining) (a) To excavate in the form of stopes. (b) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Stope, Sto"pen, p. p. of Step.
Definition: Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.] A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
13 March 2025
(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.