Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no motion; being at rest; quiescent.
- adj. Fixed; stationary.
- adj. Physics Of or relating to bodies at rest or forces that balance each other.
- adj. Electricity Of, relating to, or producing stationary charges; electrostatic.
- adj. Of, relating to, or produced by random radio noise.
- n. Random noise, such as crackling in a receiver or specks on a television screen, produced by atmospheric disturbance of the signal.
- n. Informal Back talk.
- n. Informal Interference; obstruction.
- n. Informal Angry or heated criticism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to weight and the theory of weight.
- Same as statical.
- In art criticism, monumental; stable; simply posed.
Wiktionary
- adj. Unable to change.
- adj. Fixed in place; having no motion.
- adj. programming Occupying memory allocated when a program is loaded.
- n. Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
- n. by extension Interference or obstruction from people.
- n. Something that is not part of any perceived universe phenomena; having no motion; no particle; no wavelength.
- n. Static electricity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resting; acting by mere weight without motion
- adj. Pertaining to bodies at rest or in equilibrium.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity
- n. angry criticism
- adj. not in physical motion
- n. a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference
- adj. showing little if any change
Etymologies
- Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός, from ἱστάναι ("to cause to stand"). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin staticus, relating to weight, from Greek statikos, causing to stand, from statos, standing. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Rather than explicitly declaring each non-static local variable, it seems easier to use explicit static declarations and __static for the dynamic static variables. dynamic_text method described above, we can store more useful information in the arg's text - for instance, [advise myadvice before func].”
“The term "static" is connected to the fact that researchers had to feed information to Watson, teach it how to play the Jeopardy! game and tweak the programming when they spotted flaws in Watson's game play.”
The Huffington Post: Dario Gil: The Next Era of Computing: Learning Systems
“FOSTER: It can be, because what you often get with DSL is what they call a static IP address, which allows people to locate your computer in the same place on the Internet all the time.”
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Internet Privacy Becomes Tangled Web - February 5, 2000
“The mode of observation is essentially that of Schmidt -- what he terms his static method.”
“Burst of static from the generator-god, and she cried out, whole body tensing - he could kill her at a distance, they all could, and she waited for it, but instead there was only one word hanging before her eyes:”
“Such dependence is a result of the geometrodynamic spacetime and does not appear in static scenarios.”
“The game is about exploration, discovering beautiful vistas, etc. and 15 minutes into the game you'cve probably seen all of them in static loading screen images.”
“This evolving and emergent property of grammar is not recognised in static formalist grammars like TG grammar, which tend to imply that the structures they so elegantly diagrammitise are set in stone.”
“The actors, in static poses representing ordinary family life, lip sync.”
“And why should we expect that the number of acres will remain static?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘static’.
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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gre
municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 185 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 440 more... -
Phonestheme: ST-, the Defender
Grateful credit to http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
staunch, steadfast, stolid, strong, stay, steel, stiff, stubborn, stuffy, stable, stalwart, steady and 11 more...
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lasers
words associated with LASERS.
( open list, randomness )
NOTE: i'd like to keep the list specific to the LASER itself (Any LASER), and leave out applied sciences..
sp...electromagnetism, light, wavelength, phase, frequency, polarization, emission, optical, spectroscopy, lase, crystal, projection and 61 more...
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SAT words
tergiversate, cymotrichous, vigilance, wince, consternation, cower, neutralize, euphony, cacophony, misanthrope, bibliophile, kleptomania and 81 more...
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Hit Parade GRE
Princeton Review words
abscond, aberrant, alacrity, anomaly, approbation, arduous, assuage, audacious, austere, axiomatic, canonical, capricious and 287 more...
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Programming
class, function, method, instance, value, variable, boolean, if, else, while, for, elseif and 95 more...
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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SAT Vocab
Redundant.
problematic, proclivity, prodigal, prodigious, prodigy, profane, profligate, profound, profusion, proliferation, prolific, prologue and 455 more...
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nail01
sentimental, eloquent, inevitable, pretentious, verbose, aptly, stoically, grandiloquent, valedictory, assiduous, exorbitant, wreaked and 154 more...
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dyy's Words
ambivalence, irony, double-edged sword, paradox, struggle, plunge, buoy, pigeon-hole, ultimately, status quo, fuel, undermine and 230 more...
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lanas's Words
serendipitous, insouciant, charming, sanguine, dear, odd, quaint, small, tremble, blush, flirt, tryst and 248 more...
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