un·stopped ( n-st pt )adj. 1. Not stopped: an era of unstopped progress in medicine. 2. Having no stopper or plug: an unstopped bottle. 3. Linguistics Capable of being prolonged, as the consonants (z) and (l). |
unstopped [ʌnˈstɒpt]
adj
1. not obstructed or stopped up
2. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) Phonetics denoting a speech sound for whose articulation the closure is not complete, as in the pronunciation of a vowel, fricative, or continuant
3. (Literature / Poetry) Prosody (of verse) having the sense of the line carried over into the next
4. (Music, other) (of an organ pipe or a string on a musical instrument) not stopped
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