stationary
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stationary/ˈsteɪʃənri/
▶adjective
- 1 not moving.
- 2 not changing in quantity or condition.
usage: The words stationary and stationery are often confused. Stationary is an adjective which means ‘not moving or changing’, as in a car collided with a stationary vehicle, whereas stationery is a noun which means ‘writing materials’, as in I wrote to Ann on the hotel stationery.
'stationary' also found in these Oxford entries:
beam engine
- boundary layer
- centre
- critical point
- electrostatic
- exercise bike
- force
- free kick
- gas–liquid chromatography
- geostationary
- handbrake
- hazard lights
- hit
- kickstand
- kick-turn
- Lagrangian point
- macrophage
- pigtail
- Ptolemaic system
- solstice
- spinning
- stabile
- stand
- statant
- static electricity
- stationary bicycle
- stationary point
- stationary wave
- stationer
- stationery
- stator
- steady
- stiction
- stroboscope
- tractor beam
- twist
- vigil
- warp
- windage
