static /ˈstæt.ɪk/adjective 5noun 6forms 1 adjective5 •staying the same all the time, without any changeIt's important to know that the Earth's crust is in no manner a stable and static place. — 2012 •Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement. •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 •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 •Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance. noun6 •Static electricity.This stupid carpet is always giving me a shock from the static. •Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.The World Series was on, but there was so much static that we could barely even follow the action. •(figurative) Interference or obstruction from people.I was getting a lot of static from the bean counters whenever I tried to proceed. •(US, slang) Verbal abuse.Don't you be giving me any static over it. You know the rules. •A static variable.Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time. — 2000 •A static caravan. formsstatics
