(pathology) 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.

(figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

(science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.

One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.