stat

[stat]Informal.

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noun

Origin of stat

First recorded in 1955–60; by shortening

stat

[stat]Informal.

noun

statistic.
Usually stats. statistics.

adjective

of, relating to, or containing statistics: Some sports fans memorize all the stat sheets published about a team.

Origin of stat

shortening of statistics, statistic

stat

[stat]

adverb Medicine/Medical Informal.

immediately.

Origin of stat

From the Latin word statim

stat.

(in prescriptions) immediately.

Origin of stat.

From the Latin word statim

stat.

-stat

a combining form used in the names of devices that stabilize or make constant what is specified by the initial element: thermostat; rheostat.

Origin of -stat

< Greek -statēs, equivalent to sta- (stem of histánai to make stand; see stand) + -tēs agent noun suffix

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Related Words for stat

likeness, clone, miniature, facsimile, imitation, reproduction, model, copy, picture, photograph, replication, photocopy, recreation, propagation, replica, print, breeding, data, stats, poll

Examples from the Web for stat

Contemporary Examples of stat

ESPN would not say how much it cost to land Silver, but the stat wizard did acknowledge that money was a factor.
Nate Silver Keeps Us Guessing About Why He Dumped the Times for ESPN
David Freedlander
July 22, 2013
According to the American Cancer Society-affiliated study that yielded this stat, aspirin might be great for the gut.
Can Taking Aspirin Once a Day Reduce Risk of Cancer, Stroke, and More?
Anneli Rufus
March 22, 2012
And the Republican solution is to get more people hitched, stat.
10 Outrageous Things Rick Santorum Has Said
The Daily Beast
February 20, 2012
The 2011 University of Toronto-affiliated study that yielded this stat compared pot-smoking and non-pot-smoking MS patients.
Is Pot Good for Lungs? New Marijuana Study Adds to Health-Effects Debate
Anneli Rufus
January 14, 2012
But most of it happens at night, according to the University of Indiana–affiliated study that yielded this stat.
It's High Time for Conception: Studies Show Peak Times, Weather for Sex
Anneli Rufus
December 27, 2011

Historical Examples of stat

The alarming consequences of this doctrine led to the passing of stat.
Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1.
Samuel Warren
She began to make the three ritual entrechats, but Stat stopped her.
Helpfully Yours
Evelyn E. Smith
When she set down on the Stat field she would be flaming a banner of trouble.
Plague Ship
Andre Norton
This definition is borrowed from the ancient Law of England, Stat.
The Underground Railroad
William Still
It loves the fig-trees with nothing but leaves; it adores the stat magni nominis umbra.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII
John Lord

British Dictionary definitions for stat

stat.

abbreviation for

(in prescriptions) immediately
stationary
statute

Word Origin for stat.

(sense 1) from Latin statim

-stat

n combining form

indicating a device that causes something to remain stationary or constantthermostat

Word Origin for -stat

from Greek -statēs, from histanai to cause to stand

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Word Origin and History for stat

"instrument that keeps something stationary," before 1970, shortened form of Latin statim (adv.), originally "to a standstill," from status (see state (n.1)).

-stat

combining form used in forming the names of devices for stabilizing or regulating (thermostat, etc.), from Greek statos "standing, stationary," from histanai "to cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). First used in heliostat "an instrument for causing the sun to appear stationary" (1742).

stat in Medicine

stat

[stăt]

adv.

With no delay.

adj.

Immediate.

-stat

suff.

Something that stabilizes:barostat.
Something that inhibits:hemostat.