dead calm vs stasis

dead calm

noun
  • The condition of a perfectly flat sea with no waves and no wind. 

adj
  • Completely still with no waves and no wind. 

stasis

noun
  • Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. 

  • 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. 

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

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

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