stasis
Syllables: sta·sisUK/ˈsteɪsɪs//ˈsteɪsɪs/
stasis noun: a slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
Noun
stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)
- A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
- Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
- His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
- Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194
- A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
- I was in stasis for forty years before I woke up orbiting this poxy planet!
- One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
stasis meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
stasis in Hindi
- स्टेसिस, स्टैसिस
stasis in Tamil
- இரத்த ஓட்டத் தேக்கம், உணவு தங்குதல், ஓட்ட நிறுத்தம், தக்கம், தங்குதல், தேக்கநிலை
stasis in Marathi
- स्टेसिस
stasis in Urdu
- دوران خون کی رکاوٹ, قبض
More languagesFewer languages
- stasis in Bengali
- স্থবিরতা, গতিরোধ
- stasis in Telugu
- స్టాసిస్
- stasis in Malayalam
- സ്തംഭനം stambhanaṁ
- stasis in Kannada
- ಸ್ಟಾಸಿಸ್, ಸ್ಟ್ಯಾಸಿಸ್
- stasis in Punjabi
- ਸਟੈਸਿਸ
- stasis in Gujarati
- સ્ટેસિસ, સ્ટેસીસ, સ્ટેસીઝ
- stasis in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟେସିସ୍, ଷ୍ଟାସିସ୍
- stasis in Nepali
- स्टेसिस, स्ट्यासिस
Examples of stasis in a sentence
- Just then another sensor pinged; a heatspot on the exterior hull, not far from the stasis switch.
- Acting together, Collectors have imprisoned entire cities in stasis.
- Urbach said, the exhibition is “about absolute stasis, silence, frozenness, as well as about the future of motion.”
Synonyms of stasis
Antonyms
Forms of stasis
| plural | stases |
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Origin of stasis
From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.
Words formed from stasis
- adipostasis
- angiostasis
- bacteriostasis
- bilirubinostasis
- biostasis
- chemostasis
- ciliostasis
- cryostasis
- cytostasis
- enterostasis
- glucostasis
- hemostasis
- leukostasis
- mesostasis
- metallostasis
- morphostasis
- mucostasis
- oostasis
- orthostasis
- photostasis
- stasimorphy
- stasis lock
- stasis papillomatosis
- venous stasis
Phrases with stasis
Words that rhyme with stasis
Questions about stasis
- What does stasis mean?
- Stasis means a slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
- What is stasis in Hindi?
- Stasis in Hindi is स्टेसिस, स्टैसिस. See Stasis meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is stasis?
- Stasis is a noun.
- How do you pronounce stasis?
- Stasis is pronounced /ˈsteɪsɪs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of stasis?
- The plural of stasis is stases.
Words near stasis in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stasis (page history and authors); stasis (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stasis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stasis (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stasis (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stasis (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stasis (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stasis (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stasis (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stasis (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stasis (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stasis (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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