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 Peak, 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, 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, the branch of fluid mechanics that studies fluids at rest

Engineering

* Static pressure, in aircraft instrumentation and fluid dynamics ** Static port, a proprietary sensor used on aircraft to measure static pressure * White noise or static noise, a random signal with a flat power spectral density ** Noise (radio), in radio reception ** Noise (video), the random black-and-white image produced by televisions attempting to display a weak or incoherent signal

Computing

* Static build, a compiled version of a program which has been statically linked against libraries * Static linking, 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, a CPU entirely implemented in static logic * Static library, or statically-linked library, a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time * Static memory allocation, carried out at compile time rather than run time * Static method, 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, 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 variables may be constants, local function variables, or class variables depending on the context, variables that are common to all objects ** Static (keyword) * Static web page *Static web design, a web design 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'' * "Static" (song), a 1988 funk song by Full Force and James Brown *"Static", a 1989 song by Tupac Shakur *"Static", a 2006 song by Livin Out Loud from the album '' What About Us'' * ''Static'' (Bleach album) * ''Static'' (Cults album) * ''Static'' (Huntress album) * ''Static'' (Mr. Big album) * ''Static'' (Planet Funk album) * Static Major (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 (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 pe ...

, a character who does not undergo significant change during the course of a story * Static (DC Comics), a Milestone and DC Comics superhero *

Static (Eclipse Comics) Static is a fictional comic book hero created and owned by writer-artist Steve Ditko. Publication history The character first appeared in a namesake feature in the omnibus title ''Eclipse Monthly'' #1-3 in 1983. In 1985, Charlton Comics retitled ...

, 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''