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• n  a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference
• n  angry criticism
  they will probably give you a lot of static about your editorial
• s  not in physical motion
• a  concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity
  an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static electricity
• s  showing little if any change
  a static population

• A factor in this winter's huge traffic pile up at the highway was radio failure due to snow static.
• This year's census says that the population below poverty line has remained fairly static.
• Military situation remained static not because of the call for cease fire but because of heavy snowfall.

• atmospherics
• atmospheric static
• inactive
• motionless
• still
• electrostatic
• stable
• unchanging

News & Articles

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• Anti-Static Paint protects production and employees.
  By dissipating static charges in range of 107–109 Ω and carry them to ground, StaticPaint® can protect floors, walls, ceilings, countertops, and even cabinets. Application of anti-static paint to walls and ceilings can prevent dust from collecting, gathering charge, dropping into sensitive components, and releasing charge. Water-based and non-toxic, StaticPaint meets California&rsquo ...
  June 13, 2013 - ThomasNet
• Torque Sensor Market - By Technology (Rotary, Static/Reaction, Magnetoelastic, IR, SAW, Optical), Application ...
  NEW YORK, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Torque Sensor Market - By Technology (Rotary, Static/Reaction, Magnetoelastic, ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Two-man collective STATIC presents exhibition at Scream in London
  STATIC continue to push the boundaries of portraiture and image making, previously explored in their earlier bodies of work Moments of Clarity and the Holi Series.
  June 10, 2013 - Art Daily

Quotes

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• John McCain in Washington Post
  Please don't be diverted by the ground noise and the static,McCain said as the protesters were forced out. "Americans want us to stop yelling at each other."
• Iain Duncan Smith in Economic Times
  Successive governments have over the years created one of the "most static work forces in the western world", Smith said. "In Britain now, we have work forces that are locked to areas and the result of that is we have over five and a half...
• Raila Odinga in FOXNews
  We are saying that we are willing to give and take. Initially our stand was that we won the elections, and Mr. Kibaki lost the elections, he should resign, and we should be sworn in, but we have said that we are not static on that point,...