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ˈstatɪk/
adj.
- lacking movement, action, or change.
- Physics concerned with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium. Often contrasted with dynamic.
- relating to or denoting electric charges acquired by objects that cannot conduct a current.
n.
- static electricity.
- crackling or hissing on a telephone, radio, etc.
- N. Amer. informal angry or critical talk or behaviour.
Derivative
Etymology
C16: via mod. L. from Gk statikē (tekhnē) ‘science of weighing’; the adjective from mod. L. staticus, from Gk statikos ‘causing to stand’, from the verb histanai.