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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stasis
noun
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▪ As has already been mentioned, the land is associated with stasis and stagnation, with spiritual non-being.
▪ In the microscope, the virus is monochromatic, and it is in stasis.
▪ The comparatively long time intervals between such environmental vicissitudes may be characterized by stasis in ecosystems as well as the component species.
▪ The result, in the developed world, was educational stasis.
▪ This presumably reflects the fact that biliary stasis remains with a nidus of infection already present even after stones are removed.
▪ Yet it is stasis, not change, that is the hallmark of evolution.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stasis

Stasis \Sta"sis\ (st[=a]"s[i^]s or st[a^]s"[i^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. sta`sis a standing still.] (Physiol.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stasis

"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 one for seditious purposes; related to statos "placed," verbal adjective of histemi "cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet).

Wiktionary
stasis

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.

WordNet
stasis
  1. n. an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped

  2. inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces

Wikipedia
Stasis

Stasis (from Greek στάσις "a standing still") may refer to:

  • A state of stability, in which all forces are equal and opposing, therefore they cancel out each other
  • Stasis (political history), as defined by Thucydides as a set of symptoms indicating an internal disturbance in both individuals and states
  • Stasis (biology), a block of little or no evolutionary change in a species, in the punctuated equilibrium model of evolutionary biology
  • Stasis (fiction) implies, especially in science-fiction, an artificial pause that stops all physical and chemical processes, including those of life; they resume as if uninterrupted as soon as the stasis is ended
  • Stasis (liturgy) a division of a Kathisma or other liturgical verses
  • Stasis (medicine), a state in which the normal flow of a body liquid stops, for example the flow of blood through vessels or of intestinal contents through the digestive tract
  • Stasis, moniker of Steve Pickton, British techno musician
  • Stasis (music), a technique or form used in minimalist music, and also any other style that may use slow musical development
  • Stasis (rhetoric), represents a "stand" or a "mode of proceeding" in a given argument. It consists of a four-part invention process which investigates facts (conjecture), definition, quality (right or wrong) and policy (plan of action) in a given argument.
  • Stasis (The UA Years 1971–1975), a compilation album by Hawkwind
  • "Stasis" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the television show
  • Stasis (video game), a science fiction point and click Kickstarter project released in 2015
  • Venous stasis in medicine may refer to venous insufficiency
Stasis (fiction)

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.

Stasis (The UA Years 1971 – 1975)

Stasis (The UA Years 1971–1975) is a 1990 compilation album by Hawkwind covering their United Artists period, from 1971 to 1975. It is mainly a collection of the previously hard to find single versions of songs, while the CD had the bonus of the first side of the Space Ritual album.

Stasis (The Outer Limits)

"Stasis" is an episode from the sixth season of The Outer Limits. It originally aired on 14 April 2000.

Stasis (political history)

Stasis is a term in Greek political history. It refers to:

  • the constant feuds between aristocrats in archaic Greece, and their struggles to attain the best in title (aristos is Greek for "the best") both in terms of prestige and property. It led to various civil wars and the establishment of Tyrannies in many cities of ancient Greece, most notably the Tyranny of Peisistratos in Athens
  • the feuding between oligarchic and democratic factions in the Greek city-states of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. This is a theme of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which features a famous description of factional fighting on the island of Corcyra (modern Corfu).
Stasis (video game)

Stasis is a 2015 science fiction horror point-and-click adventure game developed by The Brotherhood Games. Viewed from an isometric perspective, the game requires interactions with computers, combining items and puzzle solving. The game was released on 31 August 2015 for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, with Linux and mobile devices planned for future release.

The game centers around the main character John Maracheck who awakes from Stasis aboard an abandoned spaceship. Maracheck must unravel the mysteries aboard the spaceship "Groomlake" to find his missing wife and daughter, before the spaceship plunges further into Neptune's methane clouds.

The game has been compared with the science fiction horror film, Event Horizon, and the psychological horror adventure game Sanitarium.

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.