What does “static” mean in C?

Question

I\'ve seen the word static used in different places in C code; is this like a static function/class in C# (where the implementation is shared across objects)?

Answer 1

There is one more use not covered here, and that is as part of an array type declaration as an argument to a function:

int someFunction(char arg[static 10])
{
    ...
}

In this context, this specifies that arguments passed to this function must be an array of type char with at least 10 elements in it. For more info see my question here.