static

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. immobile, motionless, inert, passive, inactive; unchanging, the same, conservative; fixed, stationary, stagnant. See repose. Ant., active, in motion. —n. interference, noise; crackling, snow, ghosts, jamming. See communication.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. immobile, unvarying, inactive; see latent , motionless 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

1. electrical interference *atmospherics, discharges, noise.

2. criticism *flak, *grief.

II

(VOCABULARY WORD) a.

[STAT ik]

unmoving, stationary.

Electric batteries are a static power source.

SYN.: unmoving, motionless, stationary, inactive, fixed, still, constant, inert, stagnant.

ANT.: dynamic, active, moving