Definition of Stationary

1. Adjective. Standing still. "The car remained stationary with the engine running"

Similar to: Nonmoving, Unmoving
Derivative terms: Stationariness

2. Adjective. Not capable of being moved. "Stationary machinery"
Similar to: Fixed
Derivative terms: Stationariness

Definition of Stationary

1. a. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.

2. n. One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.

Definition of Stationary

1. Adjective. Not moving. ¹

2. Adjective. incapable of being moved ¹

3. Adjective. unchanging ¹

4. Noun. One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion. ¹

5. Noun. (misspelling of stationery) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stationary

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stationary

station house
station keeper
station sedan
station sedans
station throat
station throats
station to station
station waggon
station wagon
station wagons
stational
stationaries
stationarily
stationariness
stationarity
stationary (current term)
stationary bicycle
stationary distribution
stationary front
stationary fronts
stationary phase
stationary phases
stationary point
stationary stochastic process
stationary wave
stationary waves
stationed
stationer
stationer's
stationeries

Literary usage of Stationary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1860)
"The schools in the country districts are divided into stationary or permanent, ... Every stationary school is attached to the nearest surrounding district, ..."

2. American Journal of Education (1860)
"The schools in the country districts are divided into stationary or permanent, ... Every stationary school is attached to the nearest surrounding district, ..."

3. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"But here the net is made stationary and fixed by the man standing and keeping ... If the net itself were stationary, and caught a fish because it was kept ..."

4. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1905)
"stationary waves can only be formed when the effective vector in the ... Wiener having already determined that a node of the stationary wave system occurred ..."

5. Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1848)
"OF THE stationary STATE. $ 1. THE preceding chapters comprise the general theory of ... This impossibility of ultimately avoiding the stationary state—this ..."

6. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte (1853)
"Essentially provisional as it is, the stationary school naturally •serves as a guide to society ... The stationary polity not only contains inconsistencies, ..."

7. Annual ReportLabor laws and legislation (1907)
"Le Roy 'National Association of stationary Engineers No. ... 24 • 25 29 " 44 United Engineers Nn. 1, AF of L 5ft National Association of stationary ..."

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