stasis

noun
/ˈsteɪsɪs/UK/ˈsteɪsɪs/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from στάσις
  2. borrowed from stasis

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. 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.
  3. 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!
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

The neighborhood

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.

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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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