STATIONARY
\stˈe͡ɪʃənəɹi], \stˈeɪʃənəɹi], \s_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of STATIONARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
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Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
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One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
By Oddity Software
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Not moving; fixed; not to be carried from one place to another; as stationary tubs; unchanging in state or condition; as, the size of the army remained stationary.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pertaining to a station: standing: fixed: settled: acting from or in a fixed position (as an engine): not progressing or retrogressing: not improving.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Fixed; not moving, progressively or regressively; not appearing to move; not advancing; not improving. Stationary engine a steam-engine in a fixed position which draws a load on a railway by a rope.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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