Usually means: Static state, balance, or equilibrium.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. stasis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. -stasis, stasis: Merriam-Webster
  3. -stasis, stasis, stasis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stasis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stasis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stasis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stasi's, Stasis, stasis: Wordnik
  8. stasis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. -stasis, stasis: Wiktionary
  10. stasis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stasis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stasis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. -stasis, stasis: Dictionary.com
  14. stasis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Stasis (The Outer Limits), Stasis (biology), Stasis (fiction), Stasis (political history), Stasis (rhetoric), Stasis (video game), Stasis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stasis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stasis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stasis: Rhymezone
  19. Stasis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stasis: FreeDictionary.org
  21. stasis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. stasis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stasis: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. -stasis: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stasis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. stasis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Stasis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. -stasis, stasis: Medical dictionary
  7. Stasis: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. STASIS: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stasis: Natural History Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stasis: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (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.
noun:  (figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
noun:  (science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
noun:  One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

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