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Stasis vs Statics - What's the difference?

stasis | statics |

As nouns the difference between stasis and statics

is that stasis is 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 while statics is the branch of mechanics concerned with forces in static equilibrium.

stasis

English

Noun

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  • (pathology) 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.
  • Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
  • His company was sized for growth, not stasis .

    Synonyms

    * (inactivity) stability, staticity

    Antonyms

    * (inactivity) movement, flux

    Hyponyms

    * (inactivity) equilibrium

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    statics

    Noun

    (-)
  • (physics) The branch of mechanics concerned with forces in static equilibrium
  • Derived terms

    * hydrostatics

    See also

    * dynamics

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