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US
/ˈstætɪk/
]
[ UK /stˈætɪk/ ]
[ UK /stˈætɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
showing little if any change
a static population -
concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity
an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static electricity -
not in physical motion
the inertia of an object at rest
NOUN
- a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference
-
angry criticism
they will probably give you a lot of static about your editorial
How To Use static In A Sentence
- She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
- The formation of coral terraces is interpreted as the product of approximately uniform long-term uplift superimposed on eustatic changes in sea level.
- For a few odd and unsettling moments, the song hovers on its own, left virtually untouched except for the subtle fuzz of static in the background.
- The Eurasian and Laurentide Ice Sheets were responsible for most of the glacio-eustatic decrease in sea level (about 120 m) during the LGM. The pattern of postglacial isostatic rebound suggests that the ice was thickest over Hudson Bay. Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP
- More and more security experts are lining up against the use of static passwords for e-banking; in part because the technique makes consumers easy prey for phishers.
- Objective:To observe the effects of transurethral vaporization for prostate (TVP) and suprapubic prostatectomy (SPP) on sexual function of the patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
- A non-conductor can be charged by induction by exposure to an electrostatic field that is present on a surface charged with static electricity.
- They didn't expect that until 2020, so that number makes them ecstatic.
- Nothing wrong with that especially when the resulting outcome is something bordering on a religious experience of aural ecstatic proportions.
- The news on the TV screen had a surge of static and a loud noise simultaneously thundered throughout the colony.