Static Definition

stătĭk
statics
adjective
Not moving or progressing; at rest; inactive; stationary.
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Of bodies, masses, or forces at rest or in equilibrium.
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Designating or of memory that retains stored data as long as power is supplied.
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Of or having to do with static.
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Of or producing stationary electrical charges, as those resulting from friction.
Static electricity.
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noun
statics
Electrical discharges in the atmosphere that interfere with radio or television reception, etc.
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Interference or noises produced by such discharges.
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Back talk.
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Adversely critical remarks.
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Interference; obstruction.
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Origin of Static

  • New Latin staticus relating to weight from Greek statikos causing to stand from statos standing stā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikos), from ἱστάναι (histanai, “to cause to stand").

    From Wiktionary

Static Sentence Examples

  • The book contains an intellectualist, static, determinist, abstractive trend.

  • The permanent character of ancient or medieval buildings was fitted only to a society dominated by static ideals.

  • Weber had already laid the foundations of the absolute system of electric and magnetic measurement, and proved that a quantity of electricity could be measured either by the force it exercises upon another static or stationary quantity of electricity, or magnetically by the force this quantity of electricity exercises upon a magnetic pole when flowing through a neighbouring conductor.

  • It includes everything that undergoes change; and as modern science has shown that there is nothing absolutely static, therefore the whole universe, and every part of it, has its history.

  • It is to be remedied not by giving up the idea of the Infinite but by ceasing to think of the Infinite as of a being endowed with a static perfection which the finite will merely reproduces, and definitely recognizing the forward effort of the finite as an essential element in Its self-expression.

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SSTSTA

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CICTIC

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