stasis

IPA: stˈeɪsʌs

noun

  • (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.
  • (figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
  • (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.
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Examples of "stasis" in Sentences

  • That's a problem because Iraq has been mired in stasis for 208 days now.
  • For whatever reason, Gerald was not asleep and unaware in stasis – not completely anyway.
  • The Hub, Jack's home and the place where his brother Gray was being held in stasis is blown away ... just as the Doctor's home world and his relatives are blown away.
  • Unfortunately for him he does not understand that the economy whether america's or India's or of the whole world for that matter does not exist in stasis, things change, there is a such a thing as technological development.
  • If it pays off, it could regenerate the franchise which has been in stasis since the end of "Enterprise" a few years ago, and guarantee that Chris Pine, the buff hottie playing Kirk, will be able to do Priceline ads in 2049.

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