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stasis

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) 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.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A stasis or stasis field , in science fiction , is a confined area of space in which time has been stopped or the contents have been rendered motionless.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stoppage of circulation," 1745, from medical Latin, from Greek stasis "a standing still, a standing; the posture of standing; a position, a point of the compass; position, state, or condition of anything;" also "a party, a company, a sect," especially ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces

Usage examples of stasis.

The man had a stasis generator, and his female mount also had one on its chest, held in place with a martingale strap.

Nothing appears changed, but we are now ensconced in the stasis field, kicked back a microsecond down the Continuum.

This terrible stasis remained while Moorn itself continued to turn on its axis and to hasten in its orbit.

Seen from stasis, Earth has the aspect of a pale polliwog, much larger than the others.

Others would throw bursts of hot plasma through a ram field, or carbon vapor to produce sudden surges in the burn rate, or half a ton of pressurized radon gas in a stasis field.

The stasis box was a soft iron cylinder seven feet long, welded to the shells of two radon bombs to give a total length of fourteen feet.

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The stasis field held the shoppe inviolate, but though he was safe from the Infinite Dark Mass that pressed against its walls, its potency could still be felt: pressing against the field, incredible devouring power exerting unceasing pressure.

But most of the time the unborn and indeed mostly still unconceived future colonists of the as yet undiscovered New Earth sleep peacefully in the stasis of their freezer units, unintruded upon by visitors from above.

She understood that was how long it had taken Arion and his crew to collect the Shielder colonists and transport them, also in sleep stasis, to Shamara, and then return to Saura.

We know the bioscience people in stasis at Scripps have ways of helping us.

Certainly whatever relics lay so magnificently preserved had to be valuable, as the contents of stasis boxes usually were.

They had the poor timing to present us with one of their stasis boxes at a time when Mr.

Kirk-sulu went on to explain about the ancient, extinct civilisation of the Slavers and the isolated relics of their culture, the stasis boxes, which were occasionally discovered in scattered parts of the galaxy.

That meant that the wonders of the stasis boxes were at least known to the people of Briamos.