stases

/S T EY1 S AH0 Z/
noun
  1. 1

    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. 2

    Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

    His company was sized for growth, not stasis.

  3. 3

    A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.

  4. 4

    One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

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