Static is an English word with synonyms like unchanging or atmospherics. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Static meaning
- Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
- Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
- Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
Synonyms of Static
Using Static
- The main meaning on this page is: Unchanging; that cannot or does not change. | Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement. | Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
- Useful related words include: unchanging, atmospheric static, atmospherics, unchangeable.
- In the example corpus, static often appears in combinations such as: static and, the static, of static.
Context around Static
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 7 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Static
- In this selection, "static" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pressure, immovable, terms, pressure, electricity and friction stand out and add context to how "static" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accumulate sufficient static electricity and and aircraft the static pressure is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "static" sits close to words such as constituents, defines and eligibility, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with static
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Static methods cannot access any class members that are not also static. (12 words)
Static friction When the mass is not moving, the object experiences static friction. (13 words)
Late static binding is a variant of binding somewhere between static and dynamic binding. (14 words)
In 1927 Georges Lemaître showed that static solutions of the Einstein equations, which are possible in the presence of the cosmological constant, are unstable, and therefore the static universe envisioned by Einstein could not exist. (35 words)
The terms static enthalpy and static entropy appear less common, but where they are used they mean enthalpy and entropy respectively, using the prefix "static" to avoid ambiguity with their 'total' or 'stagnation' counterparts. (34 words)
Medical issues and safety Because human tissues have a very low level of susceptibility to static magnetic fields, there is little mainstream scientific evidence showing a health effect associated with exposure to static fields. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
You can have a static constructor in a static class but you cannot have an instance constructor inside a static class.
Static and dynamic pressure Static pressure is uniform in all directions, so pressure measurements are independent of direction in an immovable (static) fluid.
The terms static enthalpy and static entropy appear less common, but where they are used they mean enthalpy and entropy respectively, using the prefix "static" to avoid ambiguity with their 'total' or 'stagnation' counterparts.
If you have dry hair, it is more susceptible to static, but a leave-in conditioner adds moisture to your hair, which helps to reduce static electricity.
What was not known is whether butterflies, moths, and other pollinators too accumulate sufficient static electricity, and if the accumulated static electricity can indeed attract pollen.
Churches are always seen as static places, but faith is not static, it is lived in people’s bodies and lives.
An alternative to scatter, for grass, is static grass which uses static electricity to make its simulated grass actually stand up.
Because the effect is due to virtual particles mediating a static field effect, it is subject to the comments about static fields discussed above.
However, uniform motion of the static source may be removed with a change in reference frame, causing the direction of the static field to change immediately, at all distances.
In 1927 Georges Lemaître showed that static solutions of the Einstein equations, which are possible in the presence of the cosmological constant, are unstable, and therefore the static universe envisioned by Einstein could not exist.
In aircraft, The static pressure is generally measured using the static ports on the side of the fuselage.
In general, as long as one team has enough static friction and can pull hard enough to overcome the static friction of their opponent(s), that team can easily win the match.
It uses wire loops, and runs a static current through them instead of applying a static voltage.
Late static binding is a variant of binding somewhere between static and dynamic binding.
Medical issues and safety Because human tissues have a very low level of susceptibility to static magnetic fields, there is little mainstream scientific evidence showing a health effect associated with exposure to static fields.
Static analysis Static analysis techniques for software verification can be applied also in the scenario of query languages.
Static friction When the mass is not moving, the object experiences static friction.
Static methods cannot access any class members that are not also static.
Static pressure and stagnation pressure are related by: : where : is the stagnation pressure : is the flow velocity : is the static pressure.
Static temperature is identical to temperature; and static density is identical to density; and both can be identified for every point in a fluid flow field.
Common combinations with static
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- static and 20×
- the static 20×
- of static 12×
- and static 11×
- static electricity 9×
- in static 8×
- static pressure 7×
- not static 7×
- to static 6×
- static friction 6×