Stasis

The term stasis (from Greek στάσις "a standing still") may refer to

• A state of stability, in which all forces are equal and opposing, therefore they cancel out each other.
• Stasis (political history), as defined by Thucydides as a set of symptoms indicating an internal disturbance in both individuals and states
• Stasis (biology), a period of little or no evolutionary change in a species in the punctuated equilibrium model of evolutionary biology
• Stasis (fiction) implies, especially in science-fiction, an artificial pause that stops all physical and chemical processes, including those of life; they resume as if uninterrupted as soon as the stasis is ended.
• Stasis (medicine), a state in which the normal flow of a body liquid stops, for example the flow of blood through vessels or of intestinal contents through the digestive tract
• Stasis (rhetoric), represents a "stand" or a "mode of proceeding" in a given argument.
• Stasis (The UA Years 1971–1975), a compilation album by Hawkwind
• Stasis (liturgy) a division of a Kathisma or other liturgical verses
• Stasis (EU project) is a European Union funded research and development project; STASIS is an acronym for "Software for Ambient Semantic Interoperable Services"
• Stasis (The Outer Limits)
• STaSIS (automotive), a high performance automobile tuning company with a focus on Audi vehicles

Music

• Stasis (music), a technique or form used in minimalist music, and also any other style that may use slow musical development
• Stasis (musician), an alias of British electronic musician Steve Pickton.
• Stasis, an instrumental Post Metal trio from Austin, Texas featuring Raanen Bozzio, James Lambrecht and Eric Peana.
• Stasis, a sludge metal band from Portland, Maine. Featuring members Michael Leonard Maiewski, Rickey Roger Aldridge, Sean Morresstte. Maiewski is also in the doom metal band Retro Grave, which has Jeff "Oly" Olson from Trouble.