static
IPA: stˈætɪk
noun
- (uncountable) Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
- (figurative, by extension, uncountable) Interference or obstruction from people.
- (uncountable) Static electricity.
- (countable) A static caravan.
- (uncountable, slang, US) Verbal abuse.
- (countable, programming) A static variable.
adjective
- Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
- Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
- Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
- (programming) Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.
- (object-oriented programming) Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.
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Examples of "static" in Sentences
- The movement is now static.
- He is specialized in statics.
- I found this in the fluid statics page.
- He also worked on statics and the catenary.
- Incidentally, is that a static, unshared IP
- Slowly the Empire grows static and decadent.
- The airtight case is vented to the static port.
- Alternatively, the change of the static unit may be quantitative.
- Because the latter is for statics and does not consider dynamics.
- And why should we expect that the number of acres will remain static?
- The actors, in static poses representing ordinary family life, lip sync.
- A static mixer then completes the dissolution of the chemicals in the liquid.
- The mode of observation is essentially that of Schmidt -- what he terms his static method.
- Such dependence is a result of the geometrodynamic spacetime and does not appear in static scenarios.
- The game is about exploration, discovering beautiful vistas, etc. and 15 minutes into the game you'cve probably seen all of them in static loading screen images.
- FOSTER: It can be, because what you often get with DSL is what they call a static IP address, which allows people to locate your computer in the same place on the Internet all the time.
- This evolving and emergent property of grammar is not recognised in static formalist grammars like TG grammar, which tend to imply that the structures they so elegantly diagrammitise are set in stone.
- The term "static" is connected to the fact that researchers had to feed information to Watson, teach it how to play the Jeopardy! game and tweak the programming when they spotted flaws in Watson's game play.
- Burst of static from the generator-god, and she cried out, whole body tensing - he could kill her at a distance, they all could, and she waited for it, but instead there was only one word hanging before her eyes:
- Rather than explicitly declaring each non-static local variable, it seems easier to use explicit static declarations and __static for the dynamic static variables. dynamic_text method described above, we can store more useful information in the arg's text - for instance, [advise myadvice before func].
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