Static \Stat"ic\ (st[a^]t"[i^]k), Statical \Stat"ic*al\
(-[i^]*kal), a. [Gr. statiko`s causing to stand, skilled in
weighing, fr. 'ista`nai to cause to stand: cf. F. statique.
See Stand, and cf. Stage.]
1. Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as,
statical pressure; static objects.
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2. Pertaining to bodies at rest or in equilibrium.
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Static electricity, Statical electricity. See the Note
under Electricity, 1.
Statical moment. See under Moment.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
static
adj 1: not active or moving; "a static village community and a
completely undynamic type of agriculture"; "static
feudal societies" [syn: unchanging]
2: not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest"
[syn: inactive, motionless, still]
3: concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity;
"an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static
electricity" [syn: electrostatic]
4: showing little if any change; "a static population" [syn: stable,
unchanging]
n 1: a crackling or hissing noise cause by electrical
interference [syn: atmospherics, atmospheric static]
2: angry criticism; "they will probably give you a lot of
static about your editorial"
WordNet (r) 2.0
193 Moby Thesaurus words for "static":
Babel, abeyant, abiding, apathetic, at a standstill, at anchor,
atmospherics, battery-powered, bedlam, biostatic, birdies, blaring,
blasting, blind spot, blooping, blurping, cacophony, capacity,
cataleptic, catatonic, changeless, character, confusion of tongues,
constant, contemplative, continuing, crawling, creeping, dead,
dead-still, difficulties, difficulty, distortion, do-nothing,
dopey, dormant, drift, dull, durable, dynamoelectric, electric,
electric-powered, electrified, electrifying, electrochemical,
electrodynamic, electrokinetic, electromechanical, electrometric,
electromotive, electropneumatic, electrostatic, electrothermal,
enduring, fade-out, fading, feedback, firm, fixed, flak, flat,
flutter, fluttering, footing, foul, frozen, galvanic,
galvanometric, geostatic, groggy, heavy, hell, hissing, howling,
hum, hydroelectric, idle, immobile, immotive, immovable, immutable,
in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inert, intact, interference,
invariable, inviolate, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid,
languorous, lasting, latent, leaden, lifeless, location, locus,
logy, meditative, motionless, motorboating, moveless, neuter,
neutral, noise, out of commission, pandemonium, paralytic,
paralyzed, passive, permanent, perpetual, persistent, phlegmatic,
photoelectric, piezoelectric, place, point, position, problems,
procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, racket, rank,
reception, remaining, riding at anchor, rigid, rumble, scratching,
sedentary, shredding, site, situation, slack, sleeping, sluggish,
slumbering, smoldering, solid, spot, squeals, stabile, stable,
stagnant, stagnating, standing, standpat, state, station,
stationary, statuelike, staying, steadfast, steady, sticky, still,
stock-still, stopped, stuck, suspended, sustained, tame, torpid,
trouble, unactive, unaltered, unaroused, unchangeable, unchanged,
unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, unemployed, unfading,
unfailing, unmoved, unmoving, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying,
vegetable, vegetative, voltaic, where, whistles, woomping, wow,
wowwows
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
atmospheric static, atmospherics, electrostatic, inactive, motionless, stable, still, unchanging
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