stasis

noun

1. 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. 2

   Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

   “His company was sized for growth, not stasis.”

3. 3

   A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.

4. 4

   One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.