Stationary

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Not moving.
  • adjective. Not capable of being moved; fixed.
  • adjective. Unchanging.
  • noun. One that is stationary.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having a particular station or place; remaining in a certain place; not movable, or not intended to be moved; not moving, or appearing not to move; technically, without velocity, whether this condition is only instantaneous, or whether the body spoken of remains motionless for an interval of time.
  • Remaining in the same condition or state; making no progress; without change; with neither increase nor decrease of symptoms, intensity, etc.: as, a stationary temperature.
  • noun. A person or thing which remains or continues in the same place or condition; specifically, one of a force of permanent or stationary troops.
  • noun. One who wishes to stay as or where he is; one who opposes or resists progress; an extreme conservatist.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
  • adjective. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
  • adjective. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
  • adjective. Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
  • adjective. the air which under ordinary circumstances does not leave the lungs in respiration.
  • adjective. A factory engine, in distinction from a blowing, pumping, or other kind of engine which is also permanently placed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not moving.
  • adjective. incapable of being moved
  • adjective. unchanging
  • noun. One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
  • noun. Common misspelling of stationery.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. not capable of being moved
  • adjective. standing still
  • Word Usage
    "A short history of the Steady-State economy John Stuart Mill was not the first economist to write about the steady-state economy (he used the term stationary state), but he was among the first to contemplate it with pleasure rather than distaste as Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo had done before."
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