stato-, stat-, sta-, -static, -stasi, staso-, -stasis, -stasia, -stacy, -stitute, -stitution, -sist

Resistant to cold or low temperatures.

Inhibition of fungal growth.

A chemical that keeps fungi from growing.

Someone who specializes in the field of geodesy.

1. A device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about one percent of the displacement of the vessel.
2. An instrument having a heavy gyroscope whose axis spins in a vertical plane to reduce the side-to-side rolling of a ship or aircraft.

1. A gyroscope or gyrostabilizer in which the rotating wheel is pivoted within a rigid case.
2. A modified gyroscope, consisting of a rotating wheel pivoted within a rigid case.

1. An instrument that reflects the sun's rays in a continuous beam and in various directions, and which can therefore serve as a signaling station; the device is clock-driven so that it points at all times toward the sun.
2. A system of plane mirrors that continuously adjust in angle according to the sun's position, so as to reflect a beam of solar radiation to some fixed point in space.

It is used in some forms of concentrating solar power.

1. A state of equilibrium or a tendency to reach equilibrium, either metabolically within a cell or organism or socially and psychologically within an individual or group.
2. The ability or tendency of an organism or a cell to maintain internal equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes.
3. The processes used to maintain such bodily equilibrium.