quasistatic
adjective
quasistatic is an adjective meaning “Happening so slowly as to appear to be static” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Q-U-A-S-I-S-T-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does quasistatic mean?
adjective
- 1
Happening so slowly as to appear to be static
- 2
In a state of dynamic equilibrium
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of quasistatic
- more quasistatic comparative
- most quasistatic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is quasistatic?
Quasistatic appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does quasistatic come from?
From quasi- + static.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).