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static
- /ˈstæt.ɪk/ UK
- /ˈstæt.ɪk/ Australia, Canada, US
- [ˈstæɾ.ɪk] Australia, Canada, US
Rhymes with -ætɪk
Where it comes from
Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.
adjective statick
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Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
It's important to know that the Earth's crust is in no manner a stable and static place.
Similar: stable, constant, changeless, equal, nonchanging, static, stationary, unaltering, unchanging, unvarying · Opposite: dynamic, changeable, changeful, changeling, everchanging, fickle, fluid, inconstant, labile, mobile, moody, shiftable
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Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
Similar: stuck
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Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.
Similar: stuck, unmovable, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert, lifeless, sessile, static, rigid · Opposite: dynamic, kinetic, mobile, moving, ambulatory, animate, motile, motive, movable, vagile
- Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime. A further advantage of static type checking is of course computational efficiency, since run time checks are no longer necessary.
- Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.
noun statics · statick
- Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television. Near-synonyms: shash, snow
- Interference or obstruction from people. I was getting a lot of static from the bean counters whenever I tried to proceed.
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Verbal abuse.
Near-synonym: flak
Similar: flak
- Static electricity. This stupid carpet is always giving me a shock from the static.
- A static caravan.
- A static variable. Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: unchanging, unchangeable, nonmoving, still, unmoving, motionless, inactive, adynamic, undynamic, atmospherics, stable, at rest, atmospheric static, immutable, unchanged, fixed
Translations
Every language
adj unchanging
| Español | estático |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 静的 seiteki |
| Português | estático |
| Français | statique |
| Italiano | statico |
| Română | static |
| Русский | стати́чный statíčnyj |
adj having no motion
| Español | estático |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | गतिहीन gatihīn, अचल acal |
| Português | estático |
| Français | statique |
| Русский | стати́ческий statíčeskij, стациона́рный stacionárnyj, неподви́жный nepodvížnyj |
adj programming: computed, created or allocated before the program starts running
| Español | estática |
|---|---|
| Português | estático |
| Français | statique |
| Русский | стати́ческий statíčeskij |
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