static

Multiple Entries:
  static    -stasis  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
static /ˈstatɪk/

▶adjective

• 1 lacking movement, action, or change.

• 2 Physics concerned with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium. Often contrasted with dynamic.

• 3 relating to or denoting electric charges acquired by objects that cannot conduct a current.

▶noun

• 1 static electricity.

• 2 crackling or hissing on a telephone, radio, etc.

• 3 N. Amer. informal angry or critical talk or behaviour.

– derivatives
statically adverb.

– origin C16: via mod. L. from Gk statikē (tekhnē) ‘science of weighing’; the adjective from mod. L. staticus, from Gk statikos ‘causing to stand’, from the verb histanai.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-stasis/ˈstasɪs/

▶combining form (pl. -stases) Physiology slowing down; stopping: haemostasis.

– derivatives
-static combining form.

– origin from Gk stasis ‘standing, stoppage’.