static

See also: -static

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) statick

Etymology

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Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstæt.ɪk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ætɪk

Adjective

static (not comparable)

1. Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.

   Synonym: stable

   Antonym: dynamic

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

   Synonyms: stable, still

   Antonyms: dynamic, kinetic, mobile, moving

   • 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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.

3. (programming) Computed, created or allocated before the program starts running, and usually not changeable at runtime

   Antonyms: dynamic, nonstatic

Derived terms

• anti-static, antistatic
• hydrostatic
• statical
• staticity

Related terms

• stasis

Translations

Unchanging

• Catalan: estàtic (ca)
• Finnish: muuttumaton (fi), pysyvä (fi), staattinen (fi)
• French: statique (fr) m or f
• Hungarian: változatlan (hu), statikus (hu), fix (hu), állandó (hu)
• Irish: statach
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• Portuguese: estático (pt)
• Romanian: static (ro) m or n
• Russian: стати́чный (ru) (statíčnyj)
• Spanish: estático
• Swedish: statisk (sv)

Having no motion

• Catalan: estàtic (ca)
• Esperanto: statika
• Finnish: paikallaan oleva, liikkumaton (fi)
• French: statique (fr) m or f
• Hungarian: mozdulatlan (hu), statikus (hu), fix (hu)
• Irish: statach, seasta
• Maori: whakaroau, pahoho, pateko, whakapahoho
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statisk

  Nynorsk: statisk

• Portuguese: estático (pt)
• Russian: стати́ческий (ru) (statíčeskij), стациона́рный (ru) (stacionárnyj), неподви́жный (ru) (nepodvížnyj)
• Spanish: estático
• Swedish: statisk (sv)

Computed, created or allocated before the program starts running

• Catalan: estàtic (ca)
• Czech: statický (cs)
• Finnish: staattinen (fi)
• French: statique (fr) m or f
• Hungarian: statikus (hu)
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• Icelandic: kyrrlegur m, kyrr-
• Portuguese: estático (pt)
• Russian: стати́ческий (ru) (statíčeskij)
• Spanish: estática (es)

Noun

static (countable and uncountable, plural statics)

1. (uncountable) Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
   • 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)

     The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

2. (by extension, uncountable) Interference or obstruction from people.
3. (uncountable) Static electricity.
4. (countable) A static caravan.
5. (uncountable, slang) Verbal abuse.
   • 1998, Everlast, What It's Like:

     And then she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walkin' through the doors / They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore

6. (countable, programming) A static variable.
   • 2000, Dov Bulka, ‎David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques (page 149)

     Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.

Related terms

• statics

Translations

Interference on a broadcast signal

• Finnish: kohina (fi)
• French: parasites (fr) m pl, friture (fr) f
• Hungarian: statikus zörej
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• Portuguese: estática (pt) f
• Russian: поме́хи (ru) f pl (poméxi)
• Spanish: estática (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} statisch (nl)
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• (deprecated template usage) Korean: 정적인 (jeongjeokin)

Anagrams

• -tastic, Ticats, attics, catsit