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Halt

The cessation of transcription due to the absence of a nucleoside triphosphate substrate (in describing the action of RNA polymerase). This is contrasted with arrest, the cessation of transcription due to the absence, or presence, of a control factor, possibly when transcription arrives at a specific site on the template.

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