adv. [f. STATICAL a. + -LY2.] With reference to static conditions; by means of static electricity.
1854. Faraday, Exp. Res. Electr. (1855), III. 511. The copper wire becomes charged statically with that electricity which the pole of the battery connected with it can supply.
1859. A. J. Ellis, in Proc. R. Soc., X. 86. The problem of mathematics is, first, to discover the laws of these successions as respects results (that is, statically), by means of considerations drawn from contemplating operations (that is dynamical).
1862. Maxwell, Sci. Papers (1890), I. 498. Now let η1 and η2 be the same quantities of electricity measured statically.
1867. Contemp. Rev., VI. 410. Both [Catholicism and Feudalism] worked for good equally by their organization and by their action, or, to use more convenient technical words, statically and dynamically.
1870. R. M. Ferguson, Electricity, 244. A telegraphic line may be charged statically.
1873. Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., II. xi. § 641. 254. The force arising from a system of stress of which these are the components will be statically equivalent, in its effects on each element of the body, with the forces arising from the magnetization and electric currents.
Comb. 1881. Nature, XXIV. 616/1. According to this theory the earth-current consists in the return currents produced by the statically-induced change on the surface of the earth.
