Definitions for statics

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statics stat·ics

Spelling: [stat-iks]

IPA: /ˈstæt ɪks/

Statics is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in statics (acisstt).

Definitions for statics

noun

1. the branch of mechanics that deals with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
2. Electricity. static or atmospheric electricity. interference due to such electricity.
3. Informal. difficulty; trouble:

adjective

1. pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
2. showing little or no change:
3. lacking movement, development, or vitality:
4. Sociology. referring to a condition of social life bound by tradition.
5. Electricity. pertaining to or noting static electricity.
6. noting or pertaining to atmospheric electricity interfering with radar, radio, the sending and receiving of wireless messages, etc.
7. Physics. acting by mere weight without producing motion:
8. Economics. pertaining to fixed relations, or different combinations of fixed quantities:
9. Computers. (of data storage, processing, or programming) unaffected by the passage of time or the presence or absence of power:

Origin of statics

First recorded in 1650-60; See origin at static, -ics

Examples for statics

Formerly the latter alone was called dynamics, and to this, in conjunction with statics, the general name mechanics was given.

By this simple experiment was laid the foundation of the science of statics.

They saw only the statics of territories; they had no conception of the dynamics of nations.

The phenomena of statics and dynamics are different phenomena.

This science, like mechanics and biology, has its statics and its dynamics.

Equilibrium, in statics, the condition when a body is acted on by two or more forces which balance one another.

He is working with the statics of the problem of money and credit.

What indeed is self-evident in this, reason confirms, and daily experience in statics manifests.

I say that statics has not dealt adequately with these problems.

The statics of society is the study of the conditions of existence and permanence of the social state.