"stasis" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsteɪsɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈstæ-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsteɪsɪs/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-stasis.ogg Forms: stases [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪsɪs Etymology: From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*steh₂-}}, {{bor|en|la-new|stasis}} New Latin stasis, {{der|en|grc|στάσις}} Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis), {{doublet|en|stead|notext=-}} stead Head templates: {{en-noun|-|stases}} stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)
  1. (pathology) 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. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid): durğunluq (Azerbaijani), стазис (stazis) [masculine] (Bulgarian), estasi [feminine] (Catalan), staasi (Finnish), Blutstau [feminine] (German), pangás (Hungarian), stāze [feminine] (Latvian), zastój [masculine] (Polish), стаз (staz) [masculine] (Russian), estasis [feminine] (Spanish), stas [common-gender] (Swedish), стаз (staz) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-stasis-en-noun-j-ZgJBDU Categories (other): Pathology, Blood, Circulatory system Disambiguation of Blood: 69 6 19 6 Disambiguation of Circulatory system: 43 25 27 5 Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences Disambiguation of 'pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid': 51 15 24 9
  2. (figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. Tags: figuratively, uncountable, usually Synonyms: stability, staticity Hyponyms (inactivity): equilibrium Translations (inactivity): засто́й (zastój) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 停滯 /停滞 (tíngzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), stase [feminine] (Dutch), stabiliteit [feminine] (Dutch), pysähtyneisyys (Finnish), Stillstand [masculine] (German), Statik [feminine] (German), Stau [masculine] (German), mozdulatlanság (Hungarian), pangás (Hungarian), stasi (Italian), സ്തംഭനം (stambhanaṁ) (Malayalam), patekotanga (Māori), whakamāraritanga (Māori), засто́й (zastój) [masculine] (Russian), состоя́ние n покоя (sostojánije) [masculine] (Russian), засті́й (zastíj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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  3. (science fiction, uncountable) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (scifi: technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time): pysäytin (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-stasis-en-noun-WMAxRFau Categories (other): Science fiction, Time Disambiguation of Time: 2 0 98 0 Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction Disambiguation of 'scifi: technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time': 1 1 97 0
  4. One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-stasis-en-noun-xJRcSgFF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: static

Inflected forms

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