Definition of Stationary

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Stationary

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

Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.

Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.

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

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Stationary Quotations

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
David Ricardo

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
Nicolaus Copernicus

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
Denis Diderot

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
Murray Walker

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
Murray Walker

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.
Leigh Steinberg

Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds.
Della Reese

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.
Johannes Stark

Stationary Translations

stationary in Spanish is estacionario

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