staticaladj.

Brit.

/ˈstatᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˈstædəkəl/

Forms: 1500s–1600s staticall, 1600s– statical.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin staticus , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin staticus static adj. + -al suffix¹. Compare static n. and later static adj.

a. Involving or relating to the measurement of weight or the use of a balance; = static adj. 2. Now rare.† statical baroscope n. Obsolete a baroscope in which the varying pressure of the air was rendered observable by the movements of a balance. statical chair n. now historical and rare the weighing chair devised by Santorio Santori (see Sanctorian adj.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective]

statical1570

static1646

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. cj^v (margin) The practise Staticall, to know the proportion, betwene the Cube, and the Sphære.

1578 W. Bourne Treasure for Traueilers iv. iii. f.6 I wyll shewe vnto you a more pleasaunter..waye (by the Arte Staticall)..for to know the true wayghte of any Shyp.

1666 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 233 So that I had oftentimes the satisfaction by looking first upon the Statical Baroscope (as for distinctions sake it may be call'd) to foretell, whether in the Mercurial Baroscope the Liquor were high or low.

1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 897 The Ingenious Sanctorius hath not exhausted all the results of Statical Indications.

1673 R. Boyle (title) A statical hygroscope proposed to be further tryed.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 401 If such a one by a statical Engine could regulate his insensible Perspiration, he might often..shorten his Fit.

1779 J. Adams Let. 4 Nov. in Papers (1989) VIII. 280 Suppose you should make a Statical Chair, and try, whether Perspiration is most copious in a warm bed, or stark naked, in the open Air.

1780 Mirror No. 79 To devise..some..statical balance which should shew the difference of weight and solidity of such objects as have a similar appearance.

1847 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 34 It is in vain, that the statical chair assures the confirmed valetudinarian that he is gaining flesh.

1865 Chem. News 23 June 292/2 An alteration in which represented by a rise or fall of one-eighth of an inch in the mercurial barometer was clearly indicated by the statical baroscope.

1967 H. F. Pitkin Concept of Representation (1972) 283 A statical chair was a device..for weighing people; its purpose was to determine the amount of ‘insensible perspiration’ lost by the body.

2008 Early Sci. & Med. 13 101 In Boyle's case, this ambition is exemplified..by his essay on his statical hygroscope.

b. Originally: †relating to weight or the equilibrium of weight (obsolete). In later use: of or relating to forces in equilibrium or the condition of rest in objects or structures; (of forces) acting to produce or maintain equilibrium; (hence) of or relating to the science of statics.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [adjective]

statical1625

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > statics > [adjective]

statical1625

static1842

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > statics > [adjective] > relating to forces in equilibrium

statical1625

static1842

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. 32 The demonstration of this Theoreme, being drawne from many Staticall principles, which wee cannot here conueniently insert.

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxxvi. 299 The Atmosphere may..for ought can be determin'd by our Statical and Mechanical Experiments, rise to the height of Five and twenty German Leagues.

1713 T. Parkyns Inn-play sig. C3 For all other Statical Motions of Humane Body's, such as are curious may find them Abridg'd, from Alphonsus Borellus [Quotation follows].

1739 Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 p. xlv The statical equilibration of that elasticity, and the hydrostatical equilibration of the nervous fluid..take off all resistances.

1758 J. N. Stevens Ess. Dis. Head & Neck 79 By the cold weather the solids of the body are rendered more rigid..as may be demonstrated very plainly by statical experiments.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Let. to — in Posthumous Poems (1824) 61 Then comes a range of mathematical Instruments, for plans nautical and statical.

1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. x. 195 The statical attributes shape, size and position.

1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) II. 13 This includes the principle of the Composition of Statical Forces.

1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. ii. 22 This effort of the ship to right herself when inclined at any angle, is called her statical stability at that angle.

1910 G. M. Rushforth tr. G. T. Rivoira Lombardic Archit. I. v. 162 They were too timid..to attack problems to which their constructive or statical attainments were unequal.

1936 J. I. Parcel & G. A. Maney Elem. Treat. Statically Indeterminate Stresses (ed. 2) 4 Only statical relations have been invoked.

1961 W. Prager Introd. Mech. Continua iv. 88 This is a tensor equation, which establishes a relation between statical and kinematical tensors.

2004 K. Downes in D. Keene et al. St. Paul's xix. 206/1 In a basilican church, side aisles have a ritual and a statical function.

†c. Of analysis, investigations, etc.: involving the measurement of weights or densities. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [adjective] > relating to measurement of specific gravity

statical1727

gravimetric1873

gravimetrical1883

1727 S. Hales Veg. Staticks Introd. 2 The most considerable and rational accounts of it [sc. the animal œconomy] have been chiefly owing to the statical examination of its fluids.

1739 Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 62 (title) An account of some new Statical Experiments.

1784 J. Richardson (title) Statical estimates of the materials of brewing.

1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. i. 12 The true statical analysis of the atmosphere is comparatively a recent labour.

1828 S. F. Gray Operative Chemist 246 (heading) Statical examination of gross bodies.

†d. Relating to the metrology of weight. Cf. static n. 1b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective] > relating to metrology of weight

statical1844

1844 Classical Museum 1 2 He has succeeded in exhibiting an analogy..between the metrical and statical systems of the various countries to which his work relates.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. iv. 425 The..information contained in M. Boeckh's recent publication on Metrology has thrown new light upon these monetary and statical scales.

†2. Perhaps: political (cf. statistical adj. 1). Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1673) i. 271 There are in Story two things especially considerable. First, the Order of the Story it self: and secondly, Moral, or Statical observations, for common life and practise.

1778 Crit. Rev. Nov. 393 To each volume [of de Sacy's Histoire Genérale de Hongrie] some notes are subjoined, containing geographical, genealogical, and statical illustrations.

3. Of electricity: = static adj. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > [adjective] > relating to electricity generated by friction

resinous1734

positive1747

negative1755

statical1829

static1838

triboelectric1917

1829 Philos. Mag. 2nd Ser. 6 378 His researches on refractions, on capillary attraction, on barometrical measurements, on the statical properties of electricity, on the velocity of sound, on molecular action, and on the properties of gases.

1837 M. Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 128 20 Inductive effects produced by electricity, not in currents, but in its statical state.

1847 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1843–7 4 208 Statical induction takes place at great distances.

1866 R. M. Ferguson Electricity 107 Galvanic electricity..can be made to manifest the attractions and repulsions of statical electricity.

1922 A. E. H. Tutton Crystallogr. (ed. 2) II. lix. 1394 The substance being a bad conductor of electricity, the statical charges accumulate about the two ends.

2006 I. Benedek in I. Benedek Developments Pressure-sensitive Products (ed. 2) iii. 108 As is known from the use of protective films, their delamination from plastic plates produces statical electricity.

a. Of, relating to, or designating a fixed or stable condition, as distinguished from a state of progress or change. Also: that is in such a condition; constant, invariable. Cf. static adj. 8a. Now chiefly Sociology.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective]

truea1225

certain1297

standing1457

surec1475

stable1481

finite1493

resident1525

determinate1526

staid?1541

constantc1550

undiscomfitablea1555

inveterate1563

sound1565

unwanderinga1569

fixed1574

undisturbable1577

wishly1578

unremovable1579

inveterated1597

immoved1599

rigid1610

staple1621

consistent1648

irradicable1728

incoercible1756

hard and fast1822

unstrangulable1824

lockstep1831

statical1853

static1856

flatline1946

1853 H. Martineau Positive Philos. of Comte I. Introd. i. 10 We may refer to a saying of M. de Blainville..that every active, and especially every living being, may be regarded under two relations—the Statical and the Dynamical; that is, under conditions or in action.

1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) iii. 196 Of all science viewed in its statical aspect, apart from the experience of change and the idea of cause, this classification, naming, and definition are the ultimate processes.

1874 J. Fiske Outl. Cosmic Philos. II. 371 The crude philosophies current..take what we may call a statical view of things. Hence they suppose that God created the world..in nearly the same condition in which we now behold it.

1886 H. S. Maine Pop. Govt. 47 The fund by which the life of the human race..is sustained, is never in a statical condition.

1915 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 195 Some of the modern nations, as for instance, China, are practically in a statical condition.

1943 P. A. Samuelson in S. E. Harris Postwar Econ. Probl. ii. 41 Its effective determinants are almost completely independent of current statical factors (level of income, etc.).

2001 J. H. Turner in G. Ritzer & B. Smart Handbk. Social Theory (2003) iii. 33/2 When viewing the social as a thing or fact, observations..focus on the statical and dynamical properties of social forces.

†b. Mathematics. Concerned with mathematical results or quantities rather than with mathematical operations. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > prime > scalar

scalar1846

statical1859

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > tensor > [adjective] > of nature of a scalar

scalar1846

statical1859

1859 A. J. Ellis in Proc. Royal Soc. 10 87 The object of the statical algebra of fractions is to reduce all combinations of numerical fractions to numerical fractions... This algebra applied to geometry allows of the investigation of all statical relations.

†c. Medicine. = static adj. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > [adjective]

non-organical1682

static1835

statical1875

1875 London Med. Rec. 15 Oct. 588/2 The statical modifications are not restricted to the tissue of the callus..but extend to parts of the original osseous tissue.

1883 Trans. Clin. Soc. 16 p. liv The statical or anatomical alteration is but one of other effects of physiological forces, which, acting under unphysiological conditions, constitute by this new departure the essential and true disease.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 236 In most cases, however, our power to remove a cause by drugs ceases as soon as it consists of definite statical tissue change.

5. Physiology. Relating to the maintenance of balance; = static adj. 5c. rare and disused.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adjective] > of or relating to equilibrium > bringing into or maintaining equilibrium

peisinga1628

balancing1645

equiponderating1691

equilibrating1761

self-righting1851

equilibratory1875

static1875

statical1905

1905 Lancet 15 Apr. 1002/1 There was no golden rule for testing drunkenness; abnormality in mental and statical conditions was the most easily tested.

Compounds

(See also sense 1a.)

statical chemistry n. [after French statique chimique ( C.-L. Berthollet Essai de statique chimique (1803)); compare chemical statics n. at statics n. 1b] now historical the part of chemistry dealing primarily with the composition of substances rather than with their reactions.

ΚΠ

1809 Repertory Arts, Manufactures, & Agric. 14 184 I have since had the satisfaction to observe, that M. Berthollett has adopted my opinion in his Statical Chemistry.

1827 H. Davy Six Disc. vii. 126 Statical chemistry, as it was taught in 1799, was obscure, vague, and indefinite, not meriting even the name of a science.

1904 G. D. Hinrichs Proximate Constituents Chem. Elements 76 The prominent professors of chemistry are hardly even in statical chemistry, but in rather a sort of statical atomism.

1977 Isis 68 463/2 Dulong..abandoned the caloric theory of gases and Berthollet's statical chemistry in favour of an electrochemical theory of chemical heats and Dalton's atomism.

statical wave n. a stationary wave, esp. the bow wave of a ship in motion.

ΚΠ

1868 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 8 173 In the case of the reflection of light in the laminated structure of the rods, which may be compared to a set of glass-plates, a system of statical waves must be established (which can only take place..where the reflecting surfaces are at the proper distances apart).

1894 R. E. Froude Ship Resistance 19 The momentary horizontal position..finds its analogue in the momentary level of the outline of a different kind of wave—namely, an imaginary wave, the elevations and depressions of which are the statical equivalent of the differences of pressure which there would be if the surface were forcibly kept smooth... I will call this imaginary wave the ‘statical wave’.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 587/1 At 19 knots the ship's statical wave has approximately the same length as the wave that would travel freely at the same speed as the ship.

1922 E. L. Attwood Theoret. Naval Archit. (ed. 6) ix. 324 This system is shown by the dotted profile of the water surface in Fig. 110, which has been termed the statical wave.

2009 51st Internat. Symp. ELMAR 169/2 The ship is positioned on a statical wave of given characteristics in a condition of equilibrium between weight and static buoyancy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	statical
释义	staticaladj. Brit. /ˈstatᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈstædəkəl/ Forms: 1500s–1600s staticall, 1600s– statical. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin staticus , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < post-classical Latin staticus static adj. + -al suffix¹. Compare static n. and later static adj. 1. a. Involving or relating to the measurement of weight or the use of a balance; = static adj. 2. Now rare.† statical baroscope n. Obsolete a baroscope in which the varying pressure of the air was rendered observable by the movements of a balance. statical chair n. now historical and rare the weighing chair devised by Santorio Santori (see Sanctorian adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective] statical1570 static1646 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. cj^v (margin) The practise Staticall, to know the proportion, betwene the Cube, and the Sphære. 1578 W. Bourne Treasure for Traueilers iv. iii. f.6 I wyll shewe vnto you a more pleasaunter..waye (by the Arte Staticall)..for to know the true wayghte of any Shyp. 1666 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 233 So that I had oftentimes the satisfaction by looking first upon the Statical Baroscope (as for distinctions sake it may be call'd) to foretell, whether in the Mercurial Baroscope the Liquor were high or low. 1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 897 The Ingenious Sanctorius hath not exhausted all the results of Statical Indications. 1673 R. Boyle (title) A statical hygroscope proposed to be further tryed. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 401 If such a one by a statical Engine could regulate his insensible Perspiration, he might often..shorten his Fit. 1779 J. Adams Let. 4 Nov. in Papers (1989) VIII. 280 Suppose you should make a Statical Chair, and try, whether Perspiration is most copious in a warm bed, or stark naked, in the open Air. 1780 Mirror No. 79 To devise..some..statical balance which should shew the difference of weight and solidity of such objects as have a similar appearance. 1847 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 34 It is in vain, that the statical chair assures the confirmed valetudinarian that he is gaining flesh. 1865 Chem. News 23 June 292/2 An alteration in which represented by a rise or fall of one-eighth of an inch in the mercurial barometer was clearly indicated by the statical baroscope. 1967 H. F. Pitkin Concept of Representation (1972) 283 A statical chair was a device..for weighing people; its purpose was to determine the amount of ‘insensible perspiration’ lost by the body. 2008 Early Sci. & Med. 13 101 In Boyle's case, this ambition is exemplified..by his essay on his statical hygroscope. b. Originally: †relating to weight or the equilibrium of weight (obsolete). In later use: of or relating to forces in equilibrium or the condition of rest in objects or structures; (of forces) acting to produce or maintain equilibrium; (hence) of or relating to the science of statics. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [adjective] statical1625 the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > statics > [adjective] statical1625 static1842 the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > statics > [adjective] > relating to forces in equilibrium statical1625 static1842 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. 32 The demonstration of this Theoreme, being drawne from many Staticall principles, which wee cannot here conueniently insert. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxxvi. 299 The Atmosphere may..for ought can be determin'd by our Statical and Mechanical Experiments, rise to the height of Five and twenty German Leagues. 1713 T. Parkyns Inn-play sig. C3 For all other Statical Motions of Humane Body's, such as are curious may find them Abridg'd, from Alphonsus Borellus [Quotation follows]. 1739 Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 p. xlv The statical equilibration of that elasticity, and the hydrostatical equilibration of the nervous fluid..take off all resistances. 1758 J. N. Stevens Ess. Dis. Head & Neck 79 By the cold weather the solids of the body are rendered more rigid..as may be demonstrated very plainly by statical experiments. a1822 P. B. Shelley Let. to — in Posthumous Poems (1824) 61 Then comes a range of mathematical Instruments, for plans nautical and statical. 1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. x. 195 The statical attributes shape, size and position. 1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) II. 13 This includes the principle of the Composition of Statical Forces. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. ii. 22 This effort of the ship to right herself when inclined at any angle, is called her statical stability at that angle. 1910 G. M. Rushforth tr. G. T. Rivoira Lombardic Archit. I. v. 162 They were too timid..to attack problems to which their constructive or statical attainments were unequal. 1936 J. I. Parcel & G. A. Maney Elem. Treat. Statically Indeterminate Stresses (ed. 2) 4 Only statical relations have been invoked. 1961 W. Prager Introd. Mech. Continua iv. 88 This is a tensor equation, which establishes a relation between statical and kinematical tensors. 2004 K. Downes in D. Keene et al. St. Paul's xix. 206/1 In a basilican church, side aisles have a ritual and a statical function. †c. Of analysis, investigations, etc.: involving the measurement of weights or densities. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [adjective] > relating to measurement of specific gravity statical1727 gravimetric1873 gravimetrical1883 1727 S. Hales Veg. Staticks Introd. 2 The most considerable and rational accounts of it [sc. the animal œconomy] have been chiefly owing to the statical examination of its fluids. 1739 Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 62 (title) An account of some new Statical Experiments. 1784 J. Richardson (title) Statical estimates of the materials of brewing. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. i. 12 The true statical analysis of the atmosphere is comparatively a recent labour. 1828 S. F. Gray Operative Chemist 246 (heading) Statical examination of gross bodies. †d. Relating to the metrology of weight. Cf. static n. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective] > relating to metrology of weight statical1844 1844 Classical Museum 1 2 He has succeeded in exhibiting an analogy..between the metrical and statical systems of the various countries to which his work relates. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. iv. 425 The..information contained in M. Boeckh's recent publication on Metrology has thrown new light upon these monetary and statical scales. †2. Perhaps: political (cf. statistical adj. 1). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1673) i. 271 There are in Story two things especially considerable. First, the Order of the Story it self: and secondly, Moral, or Statical observations, for common life and practise. 1778 Crit. Rev. Nov. 393 To each volume [of de Sacy's Histoire Genérale de Hongrie] some notes are subjoined, containing geographical, genealogical, and statical illustrations. 3. Of electricity: = static adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > [adjective] > relating to electricity generated by friction resinous1734 positive1747 negative1755 statical1829 static1838 triboelectric1917 1829 Philos. Mag. 2nd Ser. 6 378 His researches on refractions, on capillary attraction, on barometrical measurements, on the statical properties of electricity, on the velocity of sound, on molecular action, and on the properties of gases. 1837 M. Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 128 20 Inductive effects produced by electricity, not in currents, but in its statical state. 1847 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1843–7 4 208 Statical induction takes place at great distances. 1866 R. M. Ferguson Electricity 107 Galvanic electricity..can be made to manifest the attractions and repulsions of statical electricity. 1922 A. E. H. Tutton Crystallogr. (ed. 2) II. lix. 1394 The substance being a bad conductor of electricity, the statical charges accumulate about the two ends. 2006 I. Benedek in I. Benedek Developments Pressure-sensitive Products (ed. 2) iii. 108 As is known from the use of protective films, their delamination from plastic plates produces statical electricity. 4. a. Of, relating to, or designating a fixed or stable condition, as distinguished from a state of progress or change. Also: that is in such a condition; constant, invariable. Cf. static adj. 8a. Now chiefly Sociology. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective] truea1225 certain1297 standing1457 surec1475 stable1481 finite1493 resident1525 determinate1526 staid?1541 constantc1550 undiscomfitablea1555 inveterate1563 sound1565 unwanderinga1569 fixed1574 undisturbable1577 wishly1578 unremovable1579 inveterated1597 immoved1599 rigid1610 staple1621 consistent1648 irradicable1728 incoercible1756 hard and fast1822 unstrangulable1824 lockstep1831 statical1853 static1856 flatline1946 1853 H. Martineau Positive Philos. of Comte I. Introd. i. 10 We may refer to a saying of M. de Blainville..that every active, and especially every living being, may be regarded under two relations—the Statical and the Dynamical; that is, under conditions or in action. 1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) iii. 196 Of all science viewed in its statical aspect, apart from the experience of change and the idea of cause, this classification, naming, and definition are the ultimate processes. 1874 J. Fiske Outl. Cosmic Philos. II. 371 The crude philosophies current..take what we may call a statical view of things. Hence they suppose that God created the world..in nearly the same condition in which we now behold it. 1886 H. S. Maine Pop. Govt. 47 The fund by which the life of the human race..is sustained, is never in a statical condition. 1915 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 195 Some of the modern nations, as for instance, China, are practically in a statical condition. 1943 P. A. Samuelson in S. E. Harris Postwar Econ. Probl. ii. 41 Its effective determinants are almost completely independent of current statical factors (level of income, etc.). 2001 J. H. Turner in G. Ritzer & B. Smart Handbk. Social Theory (2003) iii. 33/2 When viewing the social as a thing or fact, observations..focus on the statical and dynamical properties of social forces. †b. Mathematics. Concerned with mathematical results or quantities rather than with mathematical operations. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > prime > scalar scalar1846 statical1859 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > tensor > [adjective] > of nature of a scalar scalar1846 statical1859 1859 A. J. Ellis in Proc. Royal Soc. 10 87 The object of the statical algebra of fractions is to reduce all combinations of numerical fractions to numerical fractions... This algebra applied to geometry allows of the investigation of all statical relations. †c. Medicine. = static adj. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > [adjective] non-organical1682 static1835 statical1875 1875 London Med. Rec. 15 Oct. 588/2 The statical modifications are not restricted to the tissue of the callus..but extend to parts of the original osseous tissue. 1883 Trans. Clin. Soc. 16 p. liv The statical or anatomical alteration is but one of other effects of physiological forces, which, acting under unphysiological conditions, constitute by this new departure the essential and true disease. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 236 In most cases, however, our power to remove a cause by drugs ceases as soon as it consists of definite statical tissue change. 5. Physiology. Relating to the maintenance of balance; = static adj. 5c. rare and disused. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adjective] > of or relating to equilibrium > bringing into or maintaining equilibrium peisinga1628 balancing1645 equiponderating1691 equilibrating1761 self-righting1851 equilibratory1875 static1875 statical1905 1905 Lancet 15 Apr. 1002/1 There was no golden rule for testing drunkenness; abnormality in mental and statical conditions was the most easily tested. Compounds (See also sense 1a.) statical chemistry n. [after French statique chimique ( C.-L. Berthollet Essai de statique chimique (1803)); compare chemical statics n. at statics n. 1b] now historical the part of chemistry dealing primarily with the composition of substances rather than with their reactions. ΚΠ 1809 Repertory Arts, Manufactures, & Agric. 14 184 I have since had the satisfaction to observe, that M. Berthollett has adopted my opinion in his Statical Chemistry. 1827 H. Davy Six Disc. vii. 126 Statical chemistry, as it was taught in 1799, was obscure, vague, and indefinite, not meriting even the name of a science. 1904 G. D. Hinrichs Proximate Constituents Chem. Elements 76 The prominent professors of chemistry are hardly even in statical chemistry, but in rather a sort of statical atomism. 1977 Isis 68 463/2 Dulong..abandoned the caloric theory of gases and Berthollet's statical chemistry in favour of an electrochemical theory of chemical heats and Dalton's atomism. statical wave n. a stationary wave, esp. the bow wave of a ship in motion. ΚΠ 1868 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 8 173 In the case of the reflection of light in the laminated structure of the rods, which may be compared to a set of glass-plates, a system of statical waves must be established (which can only take place..where the reflecting surfaces are at the proper distances apart). 1894 R. E. Froude Ship Resistance 19 The momentary horizontal position..finds its analogue in the momentary level of the outline of a different kind of wave—namely, an imaginary wave, the elevations and depressions of which are the statical equivalent of the differences of pressure which there would be if the surface were forcibly kept smooth... I will call this imaginary wave the ‘statical wave’. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 587/1 At 19 knots the ship's statical wave has approximately the same length as the wave that would travel freely at the same speed as the ship. 1922 E. L. Attwood Theoret. Naval Archit. (ed. 6) ix. 324 This system is shown by the dotted profile of the water surface in Fig. 110, which has been termed the statical wave. 2009 51st Internat. Symp. ELMAR 169/2 The ship is positioned on a statical wave of given characteristics in a condition of equilibrium between weight and static buoyancy. 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