{"id":10261,"date":"2012-07-09T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/static-field\/"},"modified":"2012-07-09T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:24:27","slug":"static-field","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/24033\/static-field","title":{"rendered":"Static Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_static_field_mean\">What Does Static Field Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A static field is in programming languages is the declaration for a variable that will be held in common by all instances of a class. The static modifier determines the class variable as one that will be applied universally to all instances of a particular class. 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