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quasistatic

quasistatic adjective: happening so slowly as to appear to be static.

Adjective

quasistatic (comparative more quasistatic, superlative most quasistatic)

  1. Happening so slowly as to appear to be static
  2. In a state of dynamic equilibrium

Forms of quasistatic

comparativemore quasistatic
superlativemost quasistatic

Origin of quasistatic

From quasi- + static.

Words formed from quasistatic

Questions about quasistatic

What does quasistatic mean?
Quasistatic means happening so slowly as to appear to be static.
What part of speech is quasistatic?
Quasistatic is an adjective.

Words near quasistatic in the dictionary

  1. quasistable
  2. quasistar
  3. quasistars
  4. quasistate
  5. quasistates
  6. quasistatic
  7. quasistatically
  8. quasistationarity
  9. quasistationary
  10. quasisteady
  11. quasistellar

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