static
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈstæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˈstæɾ.ɪk]
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: statick
Etymology: Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.
Senses: examples: text: It's important to know that the Earth's crust is in no manner a stable and static place.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
synonyms: word: stable
word: constant
word: changeless
word: equal
word: nonchanging
word: static
word: stationary
word: unaltering
word: unchanging
word: unvarying
antonyms: word: dynamic
word: changeless
glosses: Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
synonyms: stuck
glosses: Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: stuck
word: unmovable
word: fixed
word: immobile
word: immotile
word: immovable
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: lifeless
word: sessile
word: static
word: rigid
word: stationary
word: stuck
word: unmovable
word: unmoveable
antonyms: word: dynamic
word: kinetic
word: mobile
word: moving
word: immobile
glosses: Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
examples: text: A further advantage of static type checking is of course computational efficiency, since run time checks are no longer necessary.
ref: 1980, R. Barbuti, A. Martelli, “Static Type Checking for Languages with Parametric Types and Polymorphic Procedures”, in Proceedings of the Fourth ‘Colloque Internationale sur la Programmation’:
text: A static variable is one whose storage remains allocated for the duration of the entire program. All global variables are static variables.
ref: 1998, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, Mark R. Headington, chapter 8, in Programming and Problem Solving with C++:
text: Despite the term, a static website doesn’t mean one that never changes. Static refers to the fact that the site’s assets—HTML files, graphics, and other downloadable content such as PDF files—are just static files sitting in an S3 bucket.
ref: 2019, Ben Piper, David Clinton, chapter 12, in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide with Online Labs:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
antonyms: dynamic
nonstatic
glosses: Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.
Derived terms: aerostatic
anti-static
antistatic
electrostatic
extended static checking
hydrostatic
pitot-static
statical
static binding
static caravan
static class
static cling
static dispatch
static efficiency
static electricity
static equilibrium
static fire
static-fire
static friction
static IP address
staticity
static kill
static language
static line
static load
static memory allocation
static port
static random access memory
static scope
static scoping
static separation of duty
static site
static typing
Related terms: stasis