Meaning

• Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.

• (by extension) Interference or obstruction from people.

• Static electricity.

• A static caravan.

• Verbal abuse.

• A static variable.

Meaning

• Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.

• Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.

• Computed, created or allocated before the program starts running, and usually not changeable at runtime

• Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance.