stasis
/ˈsteɪsɪs/noun
High School
1
A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
2
Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
3
A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
4
One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.