Static may refer to:

Places

Static Nunatak Static Nunatak () is a nunatak 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south-southwest of Altar Mountain, Quartermain Mountains, in Victoria Land. The name is one of a group in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by New Zealand Geographic Boa ...

, a nunatak in Antarctica

United States

Static, Kentucky and Tennessee Static is an unincorporated community in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Pickett County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. It is located on the Tennessee–Kentucky state line south of Albany, Kentucky, northwest of Jamestown, Tennessee ...

Static Peak Static Peak () is located in the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Located southeast of Buck Mountain (Wyoming), Buck Mountain, the summit is also east of the Alaska Basin Trail, from a point known as Static Pea ...

, a mountain in Wyoming **

Static Peak Divide Static Peak Divide is a pedestrian mountain pass located in the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The pass is situated at above sea level and is the high point along the Alaska Basin Trail which is accessed from ...

, a mountain pass near the peak

Science and technology

Physics

Static electricity Static electricity is an imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material or between materials. The charge remains until it is able to move away by means of an electric current or electrical discharge. Static electricity is na ...

, a net charge of an object **

Triboelectric effect The triboelectric effect (also known as triboelectric charging) is a type of contact electrification on which certain materials become electrically charged after they are separated from a different material with which they were in contact. Rubb ...

, due to frictional contact between different materials *

Static spacetime In general relativity, a spacetime is said to be static if it does not change over time and is also irrotational. It is a special case of a stationary spacetime, which is the geometry of a stationary spacetime that does not change in time but ca ...

, a spacetime having a global, non-vanishing, timelike Killing vector field which is irrotational *

Statics Statics is the branch of classical mechanics that is concerned with the analysis of force and torque (also called moment) acting on physical systems that do not experience an acceleration (''a''=0), but rather, are in static equilibrium with ...

, a branch of physics concerned with physical systems in equilibrium **

Fluid statics Fluid statics or hydrostatics is the branch of fluid mechanics that studies the condition of the equilibrium of a floating body and submerged body "fluids at hydrostatic equilibrium and the pressure in a fluid, or exerted by a fluid, on an imme ...

, the branch of fluid mechanics that studies fluids at rest

Engineering

Static pressure In fluid mechanics the term static pressure has several uses: * In the design and operation of aircraft, ''static pressure'' is the air pressure in the aircraft's static pressure system. * In fluid dynamics, many authors use the term ''static pres ...

, in aircraft instrumentation and fluid dynamics **

Static port A pitot-static system is a system of pressure-sensitive instruments that is most often used in aviation to determine an aircraft's airspeed, Mach number, altitude, and altitude trend. A pitot-static system generally consists of a pitot tube, a s ...

, a proprietary sensor used on aircraft to measure static pressure *

White noise In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density. The term is used, with this or similar meanings, in many scientific and technical disciplines, ...

or static noise, a random signal with a flat power spectral density **

Noise (radio) In radio reception, radio noise is unwanted random radio frequency electrical signals, fluctuating voltages, always present in a radio receiver in addition to the desired radio signal. Radio noise near in frequency to the radio signal being receive ...

, in radio reception **

Noise (video) Noise, commonly known as static, white noise, static noise, or snow, in analog video and television, is a random dot pixel pattern of static displayed when no transmission signal is obtained by the antenna receiver of television sets and other d ...

, the random black-and-white image produced by televisions attempting to display a weak or incoherent signal

Computing

Static build A static build is a compiled version of a program which has been statically linked against libraries. Linking In computer science, linking means taking one or more objects generated by compilers and assembling them into a single executable progr ...

, a compiled version of a program which has been statically linked against libraries *

Static linking In computer science, a static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, produci ...

, where identifiers are associated with data or sections of code during linking, not at run-time *Static logic, digital logic which does not use a clock signal; See Dynamic logic **

Static core Static core generally refers to a microprocessor (MPU) entirely implemented in static logic. A static core MPU may be halted by stopping the system clock oscillator that is driving it, maintaining its state and resume processing at the point ...

, a CPU entirely implemented in static logic *

Static library In computer science, a static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, produci ...

, or statically-linked library, a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time *

Static memory allocation In computer programming, a static variable is a variable that has been allocated "statically", meaning that its lifetime (or "extent") is the entire run of the program. This is in contrast to shorter-lived automatic variables, whose storage is ...

, carried out at compile time rather than run time *

Static method A method in object-oriented programming (OOP) is a procedure associated with a message and an object. An object consists of ''state data'' and ''behavior''; these compose an ''interface'', which specifies how the object may be utilized by any of ...

, a method of a class that does not need an explicit object reference *

Static IP An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.. Updated by . An IP address serves two main functions: network interface ident ...

, an IP address *

Static route Static routing is a form of routing that occurs when a router uses a manually-configured routing entry, rather than information from dynamic routing traffic. In many cases, static routes are manually configured by a network administrator by adding i ...

, a network route specified by local configuration, rather than being automatically determined by protocols that automatically assign routes *

Static random-access memory Static random-access memory (static RAM or SRAM) is a type of random-access memory (RAM) that uses latching circuitry (flip-flop) to store each bit. SRAM is volatile memory; data is lost when power is removed. The term ''static'' differen ...

, a type of semiconductor memory which retains its contents as long as power is applied *

Static type checking In computer programming, a type system is a logical system comprising a set of rules that assigns a property called a type to every "term" (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). Usually the terms are various constructs of a computer progra ...

, where type checking is applied at compile-time, not run-time *

Static variable In computer programming, a static variable is a variable that has been allocated "statically", meaning that its lifetime (or "extent") is the entire run of the program. This is in contrast to shorter-lived automatic variables, whose storage is ...

s may be constants, local function variables, or class variables depending on the context, variables that are common to all objects **

Static (keyword) In some programming languages such as C (and its close descendants like C++, Objective-C, and Java), static is a reserved word controlling both lifetime (as a static variable) and visibility (depending on ''linkage''). The effect of the keyword ...

Static web page A static web page (sometimes called a flat page or a stationary page) is a web page that is delivered to the user's web browser exactly as stored, in contrast to dynamic web pages which are generated by a web application. Consequently, a static ...

*Static web design, a

web design Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code an ...

which offers a layout that cannot adapt to viewer needs

Arts and entertainment

Music

*"Static", a 1983 music single by Planet P Project on the album ''

Planet P Project Planet P Project is a pseudonym used by American rock musician Tony Carey for his science-fiction themed, progressive rock/space rock music. Carey has released six albums under the Planet P Project name: ''Planet P'' (1983, later retitled ''Planet ...

'' * "Static" (song), a 1988 funk song by Full Force and James Brown *"Static", a 1989 song by

Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru Shakur ( ; born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. He is widely considered one of the most influential rappers of all time. Shakur is among the Li ...

*"Static", a 2006 song by Livin Out Loud from the album ''

What About Us What About Us may refer to: * ''What About Us'' (Livin Out Loud album), or the title song * ''What About Us?'' (Ruth-Ann Boyle album), or the title song * "What About Us?" (Brandy song), 2002 * "What About Us" (Jodeci song), 1994 * "What About ...

'' * ''Static'' (Bleach album) * ''Static'' (Cults album) * ''Static'' (Huntress album) * ''Static'' (Mr. Big album) * ''Static'' (Planet Funk album) *

Static Major Stephen Ellis Garrett (November 11, 1974 – February 25, 2008), known professionally as Static Major (and previously as Static), was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer from Louisville, Kentucky. He was a member of the R&B tri ...

(1974–2008), Steve "Static" Garrett, a member of R&B group Playa and songwriter for Aaliyah and Ginuwine *

Static-X Static-X is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994. The line-up has fluctuated over the years, but was long-held constant with band founder, frontman, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Wayne Static until his ...

, an American industrial metal band **

Wayne Static Wayne Richard Wells (November 4, 1965 – November 1, 2014), known professionally as Wayne Static, was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and primary lyricist for metal band Static-X. He released his ...

(1965–2014), frontman, vocalist and guitarist of Static-X *Static, one half of the musical duo Collide

Characters

Static character In fiction, a character (or speaker, in poetry) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game). The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, ...

, a character who does not undergo significant change during the course of a story *

Static (DC Comics) Static is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Milestone Comics founders Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, and Derek T. Dingle. Static's first appearance was made in ''S ...

, a Milestone and DC Comics superhero * Static (Eclipse Comics), an unrelated superhero by writer-artist Steve Ditko

Film and television

* ''Static'' (1985 film), a cult film directed by Mark Romanek * ''Static'' (2012 film), a horror film * Static (''The Twilight Zone''), a 1961 episode of ''The Twilight Zone''