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statically

statically

1 7.4
Fixed in a program before it runs and not changed later
  • adverb
  • /ˈstætɪkli/
  • Specialized
translation icon : estáticamente
  • Older systems such as DTrace require statically instrumented log sites.

Examples

  • You can specify if you want your entire class to be statically compiled or just a function.

    Blog text (23)
  • But many statically typed languages have first-class functions as well.

    Blog text (19)
  • Except we're generating the hash table statically, right?

  • The result is a single buffer statically sized for larger bandwidths but much too large for lower-bandwidth links.

    Academic text (2012)
  • This provides further incentive to statically rename registers involved in false dependences.

    Academic text (1994)
  • I have been using OCaml in a production environment for nearly a decade, and over that time I have become convinced that functional languages, and in particular, statically typed ones such as OCaml and Haskell, are excellent general-purpose programming tools better than any existing mainstream language.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In programming, variables declared with a statically typed system help catch errors at compile time.

  • The data structure was set up statically to improve performance during execution.

  • When creating the application, we decided to allocate memory statically to optimize its speed.

How Changeable

erratically
13 6.4
variably
1 5.3
occasionally
438 2.0
steadily
129 2.1
statically
  • Specialized
1 7.4

Surface Forms

statically positive

Morphology

statically = static (semi-transparent) = static + ally

Formed from 'static' (fixed) + '-ally', but the specialised computing sense 'determined before a program runs' is a technical extension that may not be obvious to general learners.

Etymology

Statically also comes from stat- meaning 'to stand', and in computing this becomes a useful image: something set statically is fixed or decided before the program runs, so it does not change while the program is running.