Etymology Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.
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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:
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Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
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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: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences 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 Types and Polymorphic Procedures”, in Proceedings of the Fourth ‘Colloque Internationale sur la Programmation’:
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 and Problem Solving with C++:
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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.2019, Ben Piper, David Clinton, chapter 12, in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide with Online Labs:
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Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.
Etymology Modern Latin staticus, from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.
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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.
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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 (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
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)1978, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, “FM (No Static at All)”, in FM (soundtrack), performed by Steely Dan:
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]2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Ilos:
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Broadly, Figuratively Interference or obstruction from people.
I was getting a lot of static from the bean counters whenever I tried to proceed.
Don't you be giving me any static over it. You know the rules.
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You want to start some static?1984, Daniel Petrie Jr., Beverly Hills Cop, spoken by Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), Paramount Pictures:
Drove to the pad and hit the showers / Didn't even get no static from the cowards1992, Ice Cube, “It Was a Good Day”, in The Predator:
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 whore1998, “What It's Like”, performed by Everlast:
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Static electricity.
This stupid carpet is always giving me a shock from the static.
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, page 149: