static

See also: -static

English

Alternative forms

(obsolete) statick

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstæt.ɪk/
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Rhymes: -ætɪk

Adjective

static (not comparable)

Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
- 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
  It's important to know that the Earth's crust is in no manner a stable and static place.
Synonym: stable
Antonym: dynamic
Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
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:
  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.
(programming) Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.
Antonyms: dynamic, nonstatic
- 1980, R. Barbuti; A. Martelli, “Static Type Checking for Languages with Parametric Types and Polymorphic Procedures”, in Proceedings of the Fourth ‘Colloque Internationale sur la Programmation’:
  A further advantage of static type checking is of course computational efficiency, since run time checks are no longer necessary.
- 1998, Nell B. Dale; ‎Chip Weems; Mark R. Headington, chapter 8, in Programming and Problem Solving with C++:
  A static variable is one whose storage remains allocated for the duration of the entire program. All global variables are static variables.
- 2019, Ben Piper; David Clinton, chapter 12, in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide with Online Labs:
  Despite the term, a static website doesn’t mean one that never changes. Static refers to the fact that the site’s assets—HTML files, graphics, and other downloadable content such as PDF files—are just static files sitting in an S3 bucket.
(object-oriented programming) Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.

Derived terms

aerostatic
anti-static, antistatic
electrostatic
hydrostatic
pitot-static
statical
static caravan
static electricity
static fire
static friction
staticity
static port

Related terms

stasis

Translations

unchanging

Bulgarian: неизменен (bg) (neizmenen)
Catalan: estàtic (ca)
Finnish: muuttumaton (fi), vakaa (fi), staattinen (fi)
French: statique (fr) m or f
Hungarian: változatlan (hu), statikus (hu), fix (hu), állandó (hu)
Indonesian: statis (id)
Irish: statach
Maori: pateko
Portuguese: estático (pt)
Romanian: static (ro) m or n
Russian: стати́чный (ru) (statíčnyj)
Spanish: estático
Swedish: statisk (sv)
Ukrainian: стати́чний (statýčnyj)

Making no progress, stalled

Maori: whakamārari

having no motion

Bulgarian: статичен (bg) (statičen), неподвижен (bg) (nepodvižen)
Catalan: estàtic (ca)
Esperanto: statika
Finnish: paikallaan oleva, liikkumaton (fi)
French: statique (fr) m or f
Hungarian: mozdulatlan (hu), statikus (hu), fix (hu)
Indonesian: statis (id)
Irish: statach, seasta
Maori: whakaroau, pahoho, pateko, whakapahoho
Norwegian:
Bokmål: statisk
Nynorsk: statisk
Portuguese: estático (pt)
Russian: стати́ческий (ru) (statíčeskij), стациона́рный (ru) (stacionárnyj), неподви́жный (ru) (nepodvížnyj)
Spanish: estático
Swedish: statisk (sv)
Ukrainian: стати́чний (statýčnyj), непору́шний (neporúšnyj), фіксо́ваний (fiksóvanyj)

programming: computed, created or allocated before the program starts running

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

object-oriented programming: defined for the class itself

Finnish: staattinen (fi)

Noun

static (countable and uncountable, plural statics)

(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.
- 1978, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “FM (No Static at All)”, in FM (soundtrack), performed by Steely Dan:
  The girls don't seem to care tonight / As long as the mood is right / No static at all (no static, no static at all) / FM (no static at all)
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Ilos:
  Damaged Hologram: --alled Reapers. [static]... the Citadel... [static] ...overwhelmed... [static] ...only hope... [static]...
  Damaged Hologram: --[static] act of desperation... [static] ... the Conduit... [static] ... all is lost [static]
  Damaged Hologram: ...cannot be stopped... [static] ...cannot be stopped... [static]
(figuratively, by extension, uncountable) Interference or obstruction from people.
(uncountable) Static electricity.
(countable) A static caravan.
(uncountable, slang, US) Verbal abuse.
- 1984, Daniel Petrie Jr., Beverly Hills Cop, Paramount Pictures, spoken by Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy):
  You want to start some static?
- 1998, “What It's Like”, performed by Everlast:
  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
(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

Bulgarian: смущение (bg) n (smuštenie)
Esperanto: intermikso, perturbo
Finnish: kohina (fi)
French: parasites (fr) m pl, friture (fr) f
German: Schnee (de) m
Greek: χιόνια (el) n pl (chiónia)
Hungarian: statikus zörej
Maori: hihītanga
Portuguese: estática (pt) f, chiado m
Russian: поме́хи (ru) f pl (poméxi)
Spanish: estática (es) f

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} statisch (nl)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 정적인 (jeongjeokin) (jeongjeogin (jeongjeokin))

Anagrams

-tastic, Ti-Cats, Ticats, attics, cat sit, cat-sit, catsit

Romanian

Etymology

From French statique.

Adjective

static m or n (feminine singular statică, masculine plural statici, feminine and neuter plural statice)

static

Declension

Declension of static

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	static		statică	statici	statice
nominative/ accusative	definite	staticul		statica	staticii	staticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	static		statice	statici	statice
genitive/ dative	definite	staticului		staticei	staticilor	staticelor