stasis

ot noun

1. Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
2. 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.
3. A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
4. One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.