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stasis
English
Etymology
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ?????? (stásis). See stead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ste?s?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s?s
Noun
stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)
- (pathology) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
- Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
- His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 194]:
- Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.
- (science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
- One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
Synonyms
- (inactivity): stability, staticity
Antonyms
- (inactivity): movement, flux
Hyponyms
- (inactivity): equilibrium
Related terms
- static
Translations
Anagrams
- assist, sistas
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stationary
English
Etymology
From Latin stationarius, from statio, ultimately from st? (“to stand”). Doublet of stationer.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ste??(?)n(?)?i/
- (US) enPR: st??sh?-n?r'?, IPA(key): /?ste????n??i/
- Homophone: stationery
- Hyphenation: sta?tion?ary
Adjective
stationary (not comparable)
- Not moving.
- The train remained stationary for a few moments, before lurching forward along the track.
- incapable of being moved
- unchanging
Synonyms
- (not moving): fixed, immobile, motionless, still, stock-still, unmoving
- (incapable of being moved): immobile, unmoveable
- (unchanging): changeless, constant, immutable, unchanging
Antonyms
- (not moving): in motion, moving, on the move
- (incapable of being moved): mobile, moveable
- (unchanging): changing, mutable, variable
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
stationary (plural stationaries)
- One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- Misspelling of stationery.
See also
- stationary point
- stationery
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