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static

  • adjective
  • /ˈstæt.ɪk/

unchanging; that cannot or does not change.

Other meanings

  1. Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.

  2. immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.

Synonyms

  • inactive
  • motionless
  • still

Related words

  • acrostatic
  • adipostatic
  • astatic
  • bistatic
  • chemostatic
  • chronostatic
  • ciliostatic
  • geostatic
  • homostatic
  • hyperstatic
  • isostatic
  • kinetostatic

Example sentences

  • “You can't access an instance variable from a static method.”

    Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Word history

From Ancient Greek "στατικός".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “static” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.