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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stat

"instrument that keeps something stationary," before 1970, shortened form of Latin statim (adv.) "steadily, regularly; at once, immediately," from status (see state (n.1)). Perhaps originally "to a standstill." As an abbreviation of statistic, from 1961. Related: Stats.

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Etymology 1 adv. immediately; now; usually used in medical situations, to connote extreme urgency. Etymology 2

n. 1 Short for statistic. 2 Short for statistics. vb. (context slang gaming transitive English) To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game).

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STAT, stat, etc., may refer to:

Stat (system call)

is a Unix system call that returns file attributes about an inode. The semantics of vary between operating systems. As an example, Unix command uses this system call to retrieve information on files that includes:

  • atime: time of last access
  • mtime: time of last modification
  • ctime: time of last status change

stat appeared in Version 1 Unix. It is among the few original Unix system calls to change, with Version 4's addition of group permissions and larger file size.

Stat(2)
Stat (TV series)

Stat is an American television sitcom that aired from April 16, 1991 to May 21, 1991 on ABC on Tuesday night at 9:30pm Eastern Time.

Usage examples of "stat".

Just look at the stats: Taking 162 milligrams of aspirin a day can decrease the risk of getting colon cancer by 40 percent, the risk of breast cancer by 40 percent, and the risk of prostate cancer by 40 percent.

In fact, a friend of mine in Staten Island had told me that riding bareback is more exciting, more fun, than with a saddle and stirrups.

The fog was rolling in from the direction of Staten Island, blurring familiar landmarks, like clouds of memory overtaking the everyday trivialities.

You may guess how amazed was Barnaby True when, coming upon deck one morning, he found the brigantine riding upon an even keel, at anchor off Staten Island, a small village on the shore, and the well- known roofs and chimneys of New York town in plain sight across the water.

Judith had informed him, at the Class Four home of a certain Brose Cashdan, an administrator of the intercontinental stat nexus.

Give him fifteen millilitres per kilogram stat over the next ten minutes.

Steve Stanley was yet another example of the strange results you obtained when you ceased to prejudge a player by his appearance, and his less meaningful statistics, and simply looked at what he had accomplished according to his meaningful stats.

Wishing to convey the history of his obsession with baseball, for instance, James buried it in a discussion of the year-end stats of the Kansas City Royals.

The customer wanted stats and Major League Baseball did its best not to give them to him.

The other was hostility from the subcontractors who kept the stats for Major League Baseball.

When he ran the stats for the 1999 season, he wound up with a list topped by these five: Randy Johnson, Kevin Brown, Pedro Martinez, Greg Maddux, and Mike Mussina.

Triple-A defense independent stats were even better than his astonishingly impressive defense dependent ones.

It was true that the further you got from the big leagues, the less reliably stats predicted big league performance.

During the recitation of my musculoskeletal stats, the drone stated there was little evidence of any former injuries.

I was in the stats lab at HiTek, struggling with a box of clippings on hair-bobbing.