Stasis

Stasis (from Greek στάσις "a standing still") may refer to:

  • A state of stability, in which all forces are equal and opposing, therefore they cancel out each other
  • Stasis (political history), as defined by Thucydides as a set of symptoms indicating an internal disturbance in both individuals and states
  • Stasis (biology), a period of little or no evolutionary change in a species, in the punctuated equilibrium model of evolutionary biology
  • Stasis (fiction) implies, especially in science-fiction, an artificial pause that stops all physical and chemical processes, including those of life; they resume as if uninterrupted as soon as the stasis is ended
  • Stasis (liturgy) a division of a Kathisma or other liturgical verses
  • Stasis (medicine), a state in which the normal flow of a body liquid stops, for example the flow of blood through vessels or of intestinal contents through the digestive tract
  • Stasis, moniker of Steve Pickton, British techno musician
  • Stasis (music), a technique or form used in minimalist music, and also any other style that may use slow musical development
  • Stasis (rhetoric), represents a "stand" or a "mode of proceeding" in a given argument
  • Stasis (The UA Years 1971–1975), a compilation album by Hawkwind
  • "Stasis" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the television show

Famous quotes containing the word stasis:

    I shall speak of ... how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another.... Of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next.... Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
    Günther Grass (b. 1927)