stasis

noun4

1. •
   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.
2. •
   Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

   • His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
3. •
   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!
4. •
   One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.