stasis
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A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat,…
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
Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
- His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
- Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.
A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not…
A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
- I was in stasis for forty years before I woke up orbiting this poxy planet!
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One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
The neighborhood
- neighborstatic
Derived
adipostasis, angiostasis, bacteriostasis, bilirubinostasis, biostasis, chemostasis, ciliostasis, cryostasis, cytostasis, enterostasis, glucostasis, hemostasis, leukostasis, mesostasis, metallostasis, morphostasis, mucostasis, oostasis, orthostasis, photostasis, stasimorphy, stasis lock, stasis papillomatosis, venous stasis
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at stasis. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at stasis. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at stasis
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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