static
/ˈstæt.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
adj
Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
adj
Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.
noun
Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It's important to know that the Earth's crust is in no manner a stable and static place."
- "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."
- "A further advantage of static type checking is of course computational efficiency, since run time checks are no longer necessary."
- "A static variable is one whose storage remains allocated for the duration of the entire program. All global variables are static variables."
- "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."
- "Near-synonyms: shash, snow"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek στᾰτῐκός (stătĭkós)der. Latin staticusder. English static Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: staticus, στατικός
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstæt.ɪk/
- British English: /ˈstæt.ɪk/
Usage
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Slang
- Countable