stasis
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable, usually)(pathology) 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.
(figuratively, uncountable, usually)(figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
Đồng nghĩa: stability, staticity
- 3.
(uncountable, usually)(science fiction, uncountable) 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.
(uncountable, usually)One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
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ine-pro From stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις. See the doublet stead.