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[ˈstatɪk], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- lacking in movement, action, or change, especially in an undesirable or uninteresting way
(e.g: demand has grown in what was a fairly static market)
- concerned with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium
- (of an electric charge) having gathered on or in an object that cannot conduct a current
(e.g: the film is vulnerable to the collection of static charges)
- (of a memory or store) not needing to be periodically refreshed by an applied voltage
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Origin
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late 16th century (denoting the science of weight and its effects): via modern Latin from Greek statikē (tekhnē) ‘science of weighing’; the adjective from modern Latin staticus, from Greek statikos ‘causing to stand’, from the verb histanai. Sense 1 of the adjective dates from the mid 19th century
[ˈstatɪk], (Noun)
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- crackling or hissing noises on a telephone, radio, or other telecommunication system
(e.g: the phone was full of static that sounded distant)
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Origin
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late 16th century (denoting the science of weight and its effects): via modern Latin from Greek statikē (tekhnē) ‘science of weighing’; the adjective from modern Latin staticus, from Greek statikos ‘causing to stand’, from the verb histanai. Sense 1 of the adjective dates from the mid 19th century
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