static
Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
Adjective
- Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
- It's important to know that the Earth's crust is in no manner a stable and static place. - 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
Synonyms: stable constant changeless equal nonchanging static stationary unaltering unchanging unvarying
Antonyms: dynamic changeable changeful changeling everchanging fickle fluid inconstant labile mobile moody shiftable up-and-down unstable variable volatile wavering
- Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
Synonyms: stuck
- Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
- 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. - 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011:...
Synonyms: stuck unmovable fixed immobile immotile immovable inanimate inert lifeless sessile static rigid stationary unmoveable
Antonyms: dynamic kinetic mobile moving ambulatory animate motile motive movable vagile
- Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.
- A further advantage of static type checking is of course computational efficiency, since run time checks are no longer necessary. - 1980, R. Barbuti, A. Martelli, “Static Type Checking for Languages with Parametric...
- A static variable is one whose storage remains allocated for the duration of the entire program. All global variables are static variables. - 1998, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, Mark R. Headington, chapter 8, in Programming...
- 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...
- Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi) Proto-Indo-European *-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.
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acrostatic adipostatic aerostatic anti-static antistatic astatic bistatic chemostatic chronostatic ciliostatic electrostatic extended static checking geostatic homostatic hydrostatic hyperstatic isostatic kinetostatic lithostatic menostatic mesostatic metallostatic metastatic microstatic
Noun
- Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
- Near-synonyms: shash, snow
- The World Series was on, but there was so much static that we could barely even follow the action.
- 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. - 1976, Boating...
- Interference or obstruction from people.
- I was getting a lot of static from the bean counters whenever I tried to proceed.
Coordinate Terms: runaround
- Verbal abuse.
- Near-synonym: flak
- Don't you be giving me any static over it. You know the rules.
- You want to start some static? - 1984, Daniel Petrie Jr., Beverly Hills Cop, spoken by Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), Paramount Pictures:
Synonyms: flak
- Static electricity.
- This stupid carpet is always giving me a shock from the static.
- A static caravan.
- A static variable.
- Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time. - 2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques,...