stasis
/ˈsteɪsɪs/ noun C2- 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.
- Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. · His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
- A 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!
- One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
Plural stases
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