Static Meaning and Definition

Word: Static

How to pronounce: ˈstætɪk

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Lacking in movement, action, or change, especially in a way viewed as undesirable or uninteresting.

Example sentences: "Demand has grown in what was a fairly static market"

2. Concerned with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.

Example sentences: "The body exerts forces normal to the direction of travel that result in a static friction force against which the rest of the body can be pushed or pulled."

3. (of an electric charge) having gathered on or in an object that cannot conduct a current.

Example sentences: "The film is vulnerable to the collection of static charges"

4. (of a memory or store) not needing to be periodically refreshed by an applied voltage.

Example sentences: "Method of emulating a dual-port memory device using an internally cached static random access memory architecture"

Noun

Definitions:

1. Crackling or hissing noises on a telephone, radio, or other telecommunications system.

Example sentences: "The phone was full of static that sounded distant"

Synonyms:

electrostatic

unchanging

immobile

motionless

stable

standing

still

atmospherics

inactive

Antonyms:

dynamic

antistatic

Derivations:

statical

stationary

statically

staticize

statics

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Static in Other Languages...

Spanish: Estática

German: Statisch

French: Statique

Italian: Statico

Turkish: Sabit