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statick

statick is the obsolete form of static.

Meaning of static

Adjective

static (not comparable)

  1. Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
    • 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
  2. Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement.
    Synonyms:
    stuck
  3. Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
    • 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
  4. Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime.
    • 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’
    Antonyms:
    dynamic, nonstatic
  5. (object-oriented programming) Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.

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Questions about statick

What is statick the obsolete form of?
Statick is the obsolete form of static.

Words near statick in the dictionary

  1. staticized
  2. staticizer
  3. staticizers
  4. staticizes
  5. staticizing
  6. statick
  7. statickiness
  8. staticky
  9. staticly
  10. staticproof
  11. statics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: statick (page history and authors); static (page history and authors). 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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