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Definition: Statics |
StaticsNoun1. The branch of mechanics concerned with forces in equilibrium. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "statics" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | A hissing, crackling, or other sudden sharp sound that tends to interfere with the reception, utilisation, or enjoyment of desired signals or sounds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The study of matter in equilibrium under forces which produce no motion. (references) |
Mining | That branch of mechanics dealing with the relations of forces that produceequilibrium among material bodies. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Statics is the branch of physics that is concerned with physical systems that are in static equilibrium, that is, in a state where the relative positions of subsystems do not vary over time, or where components and structures are at rest under the action of external forces of equilibrium. When in static equilibrium, the system is either at rest or moving at constant velocity through its center of mass.
By Newton's second law, this situation implies that the net force and net torque on every subsystem is zero, meaning that for for every force bearing upon a member, there must be an equal and opposite force. From this constraint, such quantities as stress or pressure can be derived. The net forces equalling zero is known as the first condition for equilibrium, and the net torque equalling zero is known as the second condition for equilibrium.
Statics is thoroughly used in the analysis of structures, for instance in architectural engineering. Strength of materials is a related field of mechanics that relies heavily on the application of static equilibrium.
Hydrostatics, a related field, analyzes systems in static equilibrium which involve forces due to mechanical fluids.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Statics."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gravity | Statics. |
Strength | Dynamics, statics. |
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Crosswords: Statics |
| English words defined with "statics": Funicular machine ♦ Graphical statics. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "statics": mechanics of fluids ♦ statically determinate frame. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "statics": Hygrostatics. (references) |
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 | The Revd. Dr. Stephen Hales, F.R.S. Author Of Vegetable Statics. / Coates R.A. pinxt. Hopwood sculpt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Movement of human appendages and pulley systems compared using principles of mechanics and statics. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A mysterious system of statics is practised throughout daily by prisoners, who are eternally envying the birds and flies. |
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| "Statics" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Statics" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "statics": Graphical statics ♦ of statics ♦ social statics. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "statics"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | statikë, zhurma (jamming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | علم السكون, علم الإحصاء (statistics), السكونيات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | статика, атмосферни смущения (grinders). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | statika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | statiske forstyrrelser, statik (droop), bygningsstatik (building mechanics), atmosfaeriske forstyrrelser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | statica, bouwstatica (building mechanics), atmosferische verstoringen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مبحث اجسام ساکن , مبحث اجسام ایستا, ایستاشناسی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rakennusstatiikka (building mechanics), ilmastohäiriöt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | statique (static), parasites (static, strays). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | statik (structural engineering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στατική των κατασκευών (building mechanics), στατική. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | statika, légköri zavarok (atmospherics, strays). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | statica delle costruzioni (building mechanics), statica (static). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 静力学 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいりきがく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aticsstay parasitas (vermin). (various references) staticã. (various references) статика. (various references) statika. (various references) perturbaciones atmosféricas (atmospherics), parásitos atmosféricos, parásitos (vermin), estáticos, estática de las construcciones (building mechanics). (various references) statik (building mechanics, droop). (various references) statik (static), parazit (atmospherics, cestode, cestoid, helminth, interference, noise, parasital, parasite, parasitic, parasitical, strays, vermin, white noise), dinginlik bilimi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "statics": aerostatics, cytostatics, ecstatics, electrostatics, hemostatics, hydrostatics. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: attics, scatts, static. | |
-2 letters: attic, casts, cists, satis, scats, scatt, stats, tacit, tacts. | |
-3 letters: acts, aits, asci, cast, cats, cist, sacs, sati, scat, sics, sits, stat, tact, tass, tats, tics, tits. | |
-4 letters: act, ais, ait, ass, att, cat, cis, its, sac, sat, sic, sis, sit, tas, tat, tic, tis, tit. | |
-5 letters: ai, as, at, is. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: astricts, statices, tachists. | |
+2 letters: abstricts, activists, atticisms, atticists, autistics, cattiness, chartists, distracts, ecstatics, isostatic, scantiest, scattiest, statistic, systaltic, tachistes, tacitness, testacies. | |
+3 letters: aesthetics, asthmatics, castigates, catechists, chastities, chattiness, fantastics, intactness, kickstarts, masticates, patristics, rusticates, sanctities, snatchiest, spasticity, starchiest, statistics, stigmatics, stochastic, syntactics, systematic, tracksuits, waistcoats. | |
+4 letters: aerostatics, anecdotists, anesthetics, antifascist, antiracists, antiseptics, aristocrats, astigmatics, atelectasis, capitalists, cartoonists, cassiterite, castigators, castrations, cattinesses, centralists, constatives, constipates, constraints, cytostatics, factualists, hemostatics, intestacies, masticators, matchsticks, microstates, necessitate, psittacines, psittacoses, psittacosis, recitalists, resuscitate, rickettsias, rusticators, scatterings, scratchiest, semanticist, solicitants, stalactites, statistical, systematics, tacitnesses, tapersticks, testatrices, transcripts. | |
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