The difference between Movement and Stasis

When used as nouns, movement means physical motion between points in space, whereas stasis means 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.


check bellow for the other definitions of Movement and Stasis

  1. Movement as a noun:

    Physical motion between points in space.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: motion"

    "ant stasis"

    "I saw a movement in that grass on the hill."

  2. Movement as a noun (engineering):

    A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.

  3. Movement as a noun:

    The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.

  4. Movement as a noun:

    A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

    Examples:

    "The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947."

  5. Movement as a noun (music):

    A large division of a larger composition.

  6. Movement as a noun (aviation):

    An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.

    Examples:

    "Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year."

  7. Movement as a noun (baseball):

    The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.

    Examples:

    "The movement on his [[cutter]] was devastating."

  8. Movement as a noun:

    An act of emptying the bowels.

  9. Movement as a noun (obsolete):

    Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

  1. Stasis as a noun (pathology):

    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. Stasis as a noun:

    Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

    Examples:

    "His company was sized for growth, not stasis."

  3. Stasis as a noun (scifi):

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

  4. Stasis as a noun:

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

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