stasis

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (uncountable, usually) 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. (figuratively, uncountable, usually) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
  3. (uncountable, usually) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
  4. (uncountable, usually) One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

Teenoorgestelde van
movement, flux
Frekwensie

C2
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈsteɪsɪs/
Etimologie (Engels)

From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.

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