static

CEFRC1

/ˈstæt.ɪk/

adjective

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.

In context

The World Series was on, but there was so much static that we could barely even follow the action.
The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
Near-synonyms: shash, snow

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It's important to know that the Earth's crust is in no manner a stable and static place.
2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.
2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
A further advantage of static type checking is of course computational efficiency, since run time checks are no longer necessary.
1980, R. Barbuti, A. Martelli, “Static Type Checking for Languages with Parametric Types and Polymorphic Procedures”, in Proceedings of the Fourth ‘Colloque Internationale sur la Programmation’
A static variable is one whose storage remains allocated for the duration of the entire program. All global variables are static variables.
1998, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, Mark R. Headington, chapter 8, in Programming and Problem Solving with C++
Despite the term, a static website doesn’t mean one that never changes. Static refers to the fact that the site’s assets—HTML files, graphics, and other downloadable content such as PDF files—are just static files sitting in an S3 bucket.
2019, Ben Piper, David Clinton, chapter 12, in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide with Online Labs

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from Ancient Greek στατικός (statikós), from ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to make stand”). By surface analysis, stasis + -tic.