stasis

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And it's talking about stasis, which is the tendency of species not to change that much once they first appear.

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  1. noun A condition of balance among various forces; motionlessness: "Language is a primary element of culture, and stasis in the arts is tantamount to death” (Charles Marsh).
  2. noun Pathology Stoppage of the normal flow of a body substance, as of blood through an artery or of intestinal contents through the bowels.

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  • He was in a kind of stasis, unable to grow old, because fading out would release him from his chore. —  Up In A Heaval
  • Unless the occupant had been on continuous sync with a neural net or a body in stasis, the memory information was lost to wherever such energies go after life can no longer sustain them. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
  • So the J'Jal corpse fell into a stasis, and if no one had entered this apartment, it would have remained where it was, sipping at the increasingly stale air, its lazy metabolism eating its own flesh until it was a skeleton and shriveled organs and a gaunt, deeply mummified face. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Freed from stasis, the flame in its bowl danced like a little animal, flickering saffron. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • Potts said that Joseph hooked up a managerial contract with a US organisation (ESEE) but they could not make fights for Salandy and her career went into a state of stasis, as she was inactive for a long period. —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Greek, stationariness; see stā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek στάσ, σ1ις, a standing, a stoppage, from ἱστάναι, mid. and passive ἰστασ, σ1θαι, stand: see stand.
 

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