nonstatic
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- adjective
- /nɒnˈstætɪk/
- Specialized
- The configuration settings for this application are nonstatic and can be adjusted for different user profiles.
Examples
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Each time you run the program, the data generated is nonstatic and will vary based on user input.
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What cannot be communicated well in this graphic is that the interactions among the model's elements are ongoing and nonstatic.
Academic text (1996) -
As expected, this fact implies that a better homogenization is provided by nonstatic composting systems.
Academic text (2001) -
I earned my doctorate by producing some exact, nonstatic, spherically symmetric solutions of his theory.
Academic text (1999) -
In the fluctuating and decentered present perspective of an extra system that creates categories other than those of the monolinearity and monodiscursivity determined by a center, I must now state, temporarily at least, several positional criteria (themselves nonstatic) that correspond to a logic of process.
Academic text (1995) -
In object-oriented programming, a nonstatic method can access instance variables that are unique to each object.
Antonyms
How Instance-Specific
- Specialized
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Etymology
Nonstatic comes from non- meaning 'not' and static meaning 'still' or 'fixed', so it literally means 'not fixed'. In programming, a nonstatic method or field can change and belongs to a single object rather than being shared by all, so you often need an object to use it.