stagnation

noun
/stæɡˈneɪʃn̩/UK/stæɡˈneɪʃən/CA/stæɡˈnæɪʃən/

Etymology

From stagnate + -ation (suffix denoting an action or process, or its result), Stagnate is derived from stagnāt-, the participial stem of Latin stagnāre, the present active infinitive of stāgnō (“of waters: to cover the land as a lake, to become a pool, to stagnate”), from stāgnum (“body of standing water (lake, swamp, etc.)”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to drip; to seep”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

  1. derived from *steh₂g- — “to drip; to seep
  2. derived from stagnāre

Definitions

  1. The state of being stagnant

    The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this.

    • Factors known to encourage the growth of harmful bacteria inside cooling systems include the stagnation of the water.
    • If the water runneth, it holdeth clear, sweet, and fresh; but stagnation turneth it into a noisome puddle: […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stagnation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at stagnation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at stagnation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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