static
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈstæt.ɪk/
static (not comparable)
- Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
- Synonyms: stable
- Antonyms: dynamic
- Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
- Synonyms: stable, still
- Antonyms: dynamic, kinetic, mobile, moving
- (programming) Computed, created or allocated before the program starts running, and usually not changeable at runtime
- Antonyms: dynamic, nonstatic
- (object-oriented programming) Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.
static
- (uncountable) Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
- 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
- The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
- 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
- (by extension, uncountable) Interference or obstruction from people.
- (uncountable) Static electricity.
- (countable) A static caravan.
- (uncountable, slang) Verbal abuse.
- 1998, Everlast, What It's Like:
- And then she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walkin' through the doors / They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore
- 1998, Everlast, What It's Like:
- (countable, programming) A static variable.
- 2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques (page 149)
- Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.
- 2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques (page 149)
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