auto-stopn.1
/ˈɔːtəʊstɒp/, U.S. /ˈɔdoʊˌstɑp/, /ˈɑdoʊˌstɑp/ A facility on a record player or (later more usually) a cassette player for automatically stopping operation once a record or cassette has played to the end, or when a cassette has finished rewinding or fast-forwarding.
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1920 Musical Times 61 222/2 (advt.) Æolian vocalion, cabinet style. Complete, with graduola device and auto stop.
1944 Gramophone Apr. 174/2 (advt.) Electric Gramophone... Massive mahogany cabinet, Amplion pick-up, auto-stop, etc.
1971 N.Y. Mag. 8 Nov. 2/1 (advt.) Auto-Stop to shut off the machine at the end of the tape.
2009 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 7 May (Green Guide section) 23 The tape rewinds endlessly because it has broken away from the leader tape at its end; there's no tension to activate the auto-stop.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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