🧴 A static blocker ⚡ Prevents static

antistatic

1 3.9

Stopping or reducing static electricity from building up

adjective
/ˌæntiˈstætɪk/

Specialized

: antiestático

Before installing the new hardware, make sure to wear an antistatic jacket to protect your components.
antistatic wrist strap
antistatic ankle bracelet

Examples

Options include speed controllers, castors, solid-clear curtains, antistatic curtains, hard-wall panels, and a control-panel package.

Academic text (1994)
Using an antistatic wrist strap while assembling electronics can help prevent damage from static electricity.
She applied antistatic spray on the carpet to minimize static cling while using her computer.

Antonyms

static

Specialized

29 6.4

Having an electric charge on a surface that can cause small shocks

How Resistant

antistatic

Specialized

1 3.9

conductive

Specialized

9 4.8

Surface Forms

antistatic positive

Morphology

antistatic = static (transparent) = anti + static

The word is transparently built from the prefix anti- meaning 'against' and the adjective static, so its meaning is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Antistatic comes from anti- 'against' and static 'not moving', as in stationary. So antistatic describes something that stops the 'standing' electric charge we call static electricity.