- an optical effect or technique in which a single frame of film is reprinted in a continuous series, which when shown gives the effect of a still photograph.
- a button or other mechanism on a projector, videocassette system, etc., allowing one to stop the projected picture at any point.
- a single frame of a film repeated to give an effect like a still photograph
- a single frame of a video recording viewed as a still by stopping the tape
- to make a freeze-frame of (an image)