stopping time
Halting temporal flow
Stopping time is a fictional or imagined power to freeze the flow of time while remaining able to move and act—a staple of science fiction, fantasy, and video games: If I could stop time, I'd sleep for a week.
The phrase also describes moments so striking they seem to halt everything: a time-stopping performance, The news was time-stopping.
- haltComplete sudden stop
- martingaleTack restraining head position
- fair gameLegitimate object of pursuit
- ceaseTo discontinue activity
- filtrationSeparating solids from liquids
pause · terminate · arrival times · suspend · expectation · freeze · frozen moment · boundary conditions · hourglass · interruption · motionless · probability · hold · clock · stasis · crystallized · forever · holding pattern
- stochastic processesrandom variable, random variables, martingale, white noise, irreducibility
- impossibilitiessquare circle, squared circle, perpetual motion, dividing by zero, logical paradox