static

Example Sentences

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I stare at the minutes ticking by on the screen, the call still in progress, but when I hold it up to my ear there’s only static.

From Literature

"Quantitatively, there may be refinements. For example, the current treatment includes gravity in a static, lowest-order approximation. The pulsar is rotating, and including rotational effects could introduce quantitative changes, though not qualitative ones."

From Science Daily

The fact that the strike zone was not static–that it changed from umpire to umpire-was one of these tics.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the point where drainage begins, they saw that liquid was not just flowing through static channels.

From Science Daily

Instead of relying on static components, its response to different types of chiral light can be adjusted continuously without replacing any parts.

From Science Daily