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Definition: Astatic |
AstaticAdjective1. Not static or stable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Astatic \A*stat"ic\, adjective. [Prefix a- not static.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Describes an instrument or device which does not tend to show a fixed reading or to take up a fixed position. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Not taking a fixed or definite position or direction; as an instrument in which a negative restoring force has been applied so as to aid any deflecting force, thereby rendering the instrument more sensitive and/orless stable. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Levity | Adjective: light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating. Verb: portable. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Astatic |
| English words defined with "astatic": astatic galvanometer, Astatic pair, Astatically, Astaticism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "astatic": Frost gravimeter. (references) |
Expressions using "astatic": astatic coils ♦ astatic galvanometer ♦ astatic microphone ♦ Astatic pair. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
astatic | 34 |
astatic microphone | 13 |
astatic d104 | 5 |
astatic d 104 | 5 |
astatic mics | 2 |
astatic mic wiring | 2 |
astatic needle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "astatic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jostabil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | واحد أشورى. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | непостоянен (capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo), астатичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | astatisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | astatisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | astaattinen, epävakava. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | astatique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | astatisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Μη στατικό, αστατικός, ασταθής (fickle, unstable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sarkítatlan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | astatico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuhassooagh (inconsistent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astaticay instável (ambulatory, baffling, bumpy, changeable, erratic, fickle, kid-glove, labile, lubricous, mobile, mutable, off-balance, slippery, slippy, temperamental, ticklish, tippy, tottering, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsteady, variable, wayward, wonky), inconstante (capricious, changeable, changeful, desultory, fanciful, fickle, flighty, giddy, impermanent, inconstant, light-minded, mutable, shifting, skittish, uncertain, unequable, unequal, unreliable, unstable, unsure, variable, versatile). (various references) астатический. (various references) astatičan, pokretljiv (motile, movable). (various references) astático. (various references) astatisk. (various references) statik olmayan, kararsız (ambivalent, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), dengesiz (deranged, immoderate, inequable, lop-sided, Moody, non compos, non compos mentis, off one's rocker, out-of-balance, unbalanced, uncompensated, uneven, unstable). (various references) нестійкий (broken, catching, chancy, dicky, drunk, erratic, groggy, infirm, labile, non-persistent, non-resistant, quaky, sliding, staggering, tickle, top heavy, unbalanced, unfixed, unsettled, unsteady, wambly, yielding), астатичний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "astatic": diastatic, metastatic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "astatic": metastatically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "astatic" (pronounced 'A*stat"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: attics, casita, static. | |
-2 letters: attic, scatt, tacit, tacts. | |
-3 letters: acta, acts, aits, asci, casa, cast, cats, cist, sati, scat, stat, tact, tats, tics, tits. | |
-4 letters: aas, act, ais, ait, att, cat, cis, its, sac, sat, sic, sit, tas, tat, tic, tis, tit. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, as, at, is, it, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: castrati, cattails, staccati, statical. | |
+2 letters: activates, artifacts, asthmatic, atavistic, castigate, catamites, cavitates, chapattis, coattails, diastatic, fantastic, masticate, tailcoats, waistcoat. | |
+3 letters: acquittals, activators, actuations, antiracist, antistatic, aristocrat, asthmatics, astigmatic, ataractics, automatics, capitalist, captivates, castigated, castigates, castigator, castrating, castration, catatonias, catatonics, cathartics, chapatties, factualist, fantastico, fantastics, fatalistic, lactations, masticated, masticates, masticator, metastatic, stalactite, statically, tacticians, waistcoats. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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