statically
/ˈstætɪkli/
adverb
- In a way that relates to forces in balance or to a state of rest; without motion or change.
- The structure was statically tested to ensure it could hold the weight.
- Statically, the system is stable, but it might fail under dynamic loads.
- The robot arm remained statically positioned while the camera scanned the object.
- In computing, in a way that is fixed at compile time rather than determined at runtime.
- In a statically typed language, the data type of every variable must be declared.
- The variable is statically allocated, so its memory size is fixed when the program starts.
- The library is statically linked, meaning the code is copied into the final executable.