Stasis

Noun

Définitions

1.NounA 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.NounInactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

"His company was sized for growth, not stasis."

3.NounA 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.NounOne of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

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