Usually means: Cessation of movement or activity.
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  1. stillstand: Merriam-Webster
  2. stillstand: Wordnik
  3. stillstand: Wiktionary
  4. Stillstand: Dictionary.com
  5. Stillstand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. stillstand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Stillstand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. stillstand: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Stillstand: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stillstand: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (stillstand)

noun:  (geology) A period of time during which the terminus of a glacier remains stationary.
noun:  (geology) A period of geologic time during which eustatic sea level stays apparently constant, relative to adjacent periods of geologic time, neither characterized by transgression, nor regression.
noun:  (obsolete) A standstill.
verb:  (geology) To cease in either glacial advance or retreat.

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