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-stat

(word root) position, stabilize

Examples of words with the root -stat: thermostat, rheostat

stat¹

(stăt)

A statistic.

stat²

(stăt)

adv. & adj.

With no delay; at once. Used especially in medicine.

[Short for Latin statim; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

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stat²

(stæt)

n.

a statistic.

[1960–65; by shortening]

stat³

(stæt)

adv. Med., Pharm.

immediately.

[< Latin statim]

-stat

a combining form used in the names of devices or substances that stabilize or make constant: bacteriostat; thermostat.

[< Greek -statēs=(hi)stá(nai) to make stand]

stat.

1. (in prescriptions) immediately.

[< Latin statim]

2. statute.

References in classic literature ?

It not only divided States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.

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