static

adjmotionless, changeless

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adj motionless, changeless

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Word Origin & History

1640s (earlier statical, 1560s), "pertaining to the science of weight and its mechanical effects," from Modern Latin statica, from Greek statikos "causing to stand, skilled in weighing," from stem of histanai "to make to stand, set; to place in the balance, weigh," from PIE root *sta- "stand" (see stet). The sense of "having to do with bodies at rest or with forces that balance each other" is first recorded 1802. Applied to frictional electricity from 1839.

Example Sentences for static

The static emerging from the speaker thickened, obliterating all other noises.

"Just a heavy charge of static electricity," replied the doctor.

There was a babble of voices from the loudspeaker, punctuated by bursts of static.

Straight at each other, neither moving, they shot their static charges.

Everywhere there has been a passage from the static to the dynamic.

It is either irresistible in motion, or immovable in static condition.

That which is stagnant is dying; that which is static is dead.

The distributive situation is never one of static equilibrium.

Apparently and superficially what it aims at is the eternally "static."

But all this desire for the eternally "static" is superficial and self-deceiving.

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