stationaryadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsteɪʃn̩(ə)ri/,

/ˈsteɪʃən(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛri/

Forms: Middle English stacionary, Middle English stacionarye, Middle English stacyonarye, Middle English stationarye, Middle English stasynary, 1500s stacionarie, 1500s–1600s stationarie, 1600s 1800s– stationery (in sense A. 7), 1600s– stationary; also Scottish pre-1700 stationeir.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin statiōnārius.

Etymology: < classical Latin statiōnārius (adjective) belonging to a detachment (of soldiers on police or guard duties), (noun) soldier serving in such a detachment (attested in both uses in inscriptions and in legal texts), in post-classical Latin also (adjective) used for the services called ‘stations’ (5th cent.), (of a planet) having a fixed station (a636 in Isidore), abiding (11th cent.), (of a canon) bound to residence (12th cent.), (noun) canon in permanent residence (from 12th cent. in British sources), shopkeeping merchant (12th cent.), bookseller (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), mendicant friar (1577 in the passage translated in quot. 1581 at stationar n. 1) < statiōn- , statiō station n. + -ārius -ary suffix¹. With the development of the general meaning ‘not moving, fixed’ compare French stationnaire that does not move, fixed in one place, (of a planet) having no apparent motion (13th cent. in Old French), which may have influenced the semantic development in English. Compare also Spanish estacionario (13th cent.), Portuguese estacionario (16th cent.), Italian stazionario (a1406).With sense A. 2c compare German stationär stochastisch Prozess (A. Khintchine 1934, in Math. Ann. 109 604). With sense A. 7 compare stationer n.¹; in form stationery by association with that word and (in later use) with stationery n. (compare discussion at that entry). In stationary fever at sense A. 1e after post-classical Latin febris stationaria (1676 in Sydenham).

A. adj.

I. Senses relating to a lack of motion or change.

1. Having a fixed station or place.

a. Astronomy and Astrology. Of a planet or the sun: temporarily having no apparent motion across the sky as a result of the way its own motion appears from the moving earth. Cf. stationary point n. 3 and station n. 13.

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the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [adjective] > stationary

stationary?c1450

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xi. 477 Þre maner meouynge of planetis is..motus directus, stacionarius, and retrogradus... Stacionarius is whanne hit semeþ þat a planete stondiþ and abidiþ as it were in þe myddil.]

?c1450 (a1388) tr. Richard of Wallingford Exafrenon (Digby) in J. D. North Wks. Richard of Wallingford (1976) I. 213 (MED) Here is a good shorte table for to knawe when all the planetis are stacionarye or retrogrode or progressive.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox & Wolf l. 632 in Poems (1981) 28 The planeitis..Sum retrograde and sum stationeir.

?1585 W. Perkins Resol. to Countrey-man in Foure Great Lyers sig. E2^v The Sunne enteryng into Pisces was almost in trine aspect with Saturne stationarie, a little while after, there was a great frost and snowe.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 105 The star becomes stationary.

1700 J. Moxon Math. made Easie (1701) (at cited word) Hence a Planet is said to be Stationary, when he is about either of these his Stations.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xliv. 527 Venus is stationary at an elongation of about 29°, while her greatest elongation is between 45° and 48°.

1912 L. George Astrol. Gleanings 98 When a benefic planet is stationary or retrograde its power for good is weakened.

1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 92 Three superior planets dance about, now stationary, now direct..gracefully undulant.

2001 P. Moore 2002 Yearbk. Astron. i. 84 Jupiter is almost stationary in the western part of Gemini.

b. Residing or established in one place; not itinerant or migratory.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > established in residence

steadfasta1272

stationary1604

settled1611

domestic1632

domesticant1642

domiciliated1782

domiciled1855

1604 M. Sutcliffe Full Answer to N. D. ii. vii. 184 Cousinage of stationarie Friars or limitors.

1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 15 As sundry Laws provided against wandring Beggers..so this Law provides for, and relieves stationary Beggers.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. iv. 38 The court being thus rendered fixed and stationary.

1796 F. Burney Camilla I. i. i. 6 A passion for field sports had, with equal constancy, kept his brother stationary.

1816 J. Austen Emma II. xviii. 339 She has now been a longer time stationary there, than she ever was before.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 388/1 The stationary lace sellers, for the most part, display their goods on stalls.

1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. iv. v. 437 Instead of a stationary creature, suppose the creature contemplated to be one that habitually moves about in the water.

1900 Daily News 17 May 3/2 A field hospital is a very different affair from a stationary base hospital.

1958 A. D. Cruickshank & H. G. Cruickshank 1001 Questions Birds iv. 35 Most birds are filled with wanderlust and stationary birds are an exception.

1996 New Scientist 31 Aug. 35/2 A bacterial chemical called homoserine lactone swings dramatically into action, signalling the pioneers to turn into stationary city dwellers.

c. Having a fixed position; not meant to move; (of a machine or part of a machine) that remains in one spot when in operation.

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the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place

stablea1400

dormantc1440

standing1469

remanent?a1475

ledger1547

fixed1559

restiff1578

statary1581

permanent1588

consistent1604

stationary1631

fundamental1633

resident1653

sedentary1667

statual1752

loco-restive1796

untransmigrated1821

stabile1896

static1910

sessile1917

1631 W. Foster Hoplocrisma-spongus 45 It may meet with stationary immoveable bodies, as wals, woods, houses, castles, [etc.].

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. iv. 172 Thus much of those Automata, which were said to be fixed and stationary.

1779 S. Musgrave Reasons for Dissenting 7 The two cylinders will remain stationary, neither of them ascending or descending.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 115 The forcing-pump is furnished with two valves, which are both stationary.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 661 The low pressure engines used in vessels, which are made twice as strong as stationary engines.

1919 L. H. Morrison Oil Engines ii. 22 A two-stroke-cycle engine that is applicable both for stationary and marine work.

1949 Our Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) (ed. 2) i. 14 Power kerosine..is used mainly for agricultural tractors and stationary engines.

2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 44 The turning of the wheel would turn a shaft, which would..eventually work the millstones in pairs, the lower one stationary, the upper one moving.

d. Standing still; not currently moving.

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the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining stationary

standing1525

restinga1616

stationary1668

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. Alphabetical Dict. (at cited word) Stationary [adj. Standing].

1683 G. Sinclair Nat. Philos. Improven 3/1 It [sc. the index of a hygroscope] is likewise stationary, or standing, when the Air is setled, as to wetness, or dryness.

1705 Plot's Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire (ed. 2) ix. 314 The Mercury of the common Baroscope is often known to be Stationary 14 Hours together.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. iii. 74 It was still stationary, and she began to doubt, whether it was really animated.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 65 So that the image may remain stationary.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 2 Every stationary boat or barge..split the current into a broad-arrow-head.

1906 J. W. Young tr. H. Poincaré in Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 243 The principle of relativity, according to which the laws of physical phenomena must be the same for a stationary observer as for one carried along in a uniform motion.

1942 J. T. Gorman Mod. Weapons War ix. 147 Stationary tanks can be disabled by dropping grenades or Molotov cocktails through the ventilating openings.

1975 Chicago Tribune 14 Apr. iii. 14/1 Keeping your feet stationary, ‘walk’ your hands away from you, slowly.

2006 M. W. Jackson Harmonious Triads viii. 274 If one moves the lens while the point remains stationary, the point itself will actually appear to move.

e. Medicine. Of a disease: tending to recur in one locality over a period of time; endemic; esp. in stationary fever. Now historical.Used esp. with reference to the terminology of Thomas Sydenham.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers

fever hectica1398

emitrichie1398

hectic1398

etisie1527

emphysode fever1547

frenzy-fever1613

purple fever1623

prunella1656

marcid fever1666

remittent1693

feveret1712

rheumatic fever1726

milk fever1739

stationary fever1742

febricula1746

milky fever1747

camp-disease1753

camp-fever1753

sun fever1765

recurrent fever1768

rose fever1782

tooth-fever1788

sensitive fever1794

forest-fever1799

white leg1801

hill-fever1804

Walcheren fever1810

Mediterranean fever1816

malignant1825

relapsing fever1828

rose cold1831

date fever1836

rose catarrh1845

Walcheren ague1847

mountain fever1849

mill fever1850

Malta fever1863

bilge-fever1867

Oroya fever1873

hyperpyrexia1875

famine-fever1876

East Coast fever1881

spirillum fevera1883

kala azar1883

black water1884

febricule1887

urine fever1888

undulant fever1896

rabbit fever1898

rat bite fever1910

Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911

sandfly fever1911

tularaemia1921

sodoku1926

brucellosis1930

Rift Valley fever1931

Zika1952

Lassa fever1970

Marburg1983

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > climate

impaludism1881

paludism1888

stationary fever1928

1684 C. Goodall Hist. Acct. College's Proc. against Empiricks in Royal Coll. Physicians London sig. Xx^v These Fevers he [sc. Sydenham] calls Stationary, distinguishing them from the Sporadique, or Intercurrent Fevers depending upon the manifest qualities or alterations of the Air.

1696 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. i. ii. 5 Therefore I call these Fevers stationary [L. Febres..Stationariae].

1742 J. Swan in tr. T. Sydenham Entire Wks. (1753) i. ii. 5 (margin) Stationary fevers defined.

1847 G. Milroy in Lancet 17 Apr. 400/2 I now proceed to notice the treatment of the pestilential fever and the plague of the years 1665 and 1666, these two being the predominant and stationary diseases of the second epidemic constitution.

1928 E. W. Goodall Text-bk. Infectious Dis. (ed. 3) 46 Sydenham..postulated an unknown something in the atmosphere, arising sometimes perhaps from the bowels of the earth, which determined for a period what should be the epidemic disease chiefly prevalent, and that disease was the ‘stationary fever’.

f. Of a battle: fought in one place, without either side advancing or retreating. Cf. static adj. 11.

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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [adjective] > types of armed encounter

openeOE

set battle1487

unbloody1544

pight1562

pitched1569

round1601

steadfast1623

strucka1625

running1651

stationary1737

stricken field1820

close quarters1871

1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Jewish War vi. ii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 927 This fight was, for the most part, a stationary one.

1818 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) V. xlvi. 131 On approaching the bank it [sc. Alexander's army] suffered, and on reaching it was..met in stationary fight.

1864 National Rev. Nov. 125 The French battle was stationary, for Bosquet..was too weak in infantry to move forward.

1915–9 J. Buchan Nelson's Hist. War XXIII. clviii. 10 The German staff..allowed an action which was based essentially on surprise to drift into a stationary battle.

2006 J. L. Tone War & Genocide in Cuba, 1895–1898 x. 136 A long, stationary battle would have been foolish.

g. Of an artificial satellite: appearing to remain stationary in the sky above a fixed point on the surface of the body it is orbiting (as a result of orbiting in the plane of the equator once each day). Also: designating such an orbit. Cf. geostationary adj.

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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > secondary planet, satellite > [adjective] > geostationary

stationary1947

geostationary1960

geosynchronous1967

1947 Amer. Jrnl. Physics 15 261 An interesting special case of the satellite rocket is the so-called ‘stationary satellite’, the angular velocity of which is identical with the spin velocity of the earth.

1961 C. T. Morrow Symp. Ballistic Missile & Aerospace Technol. I. 207 Methods by which a satellite can be injected into the 24-hour equatorial or stationary orbit.

1986 A. C. Clarke Songs of Distant Earth 204 They were..using cables of superstrength material to lift the great blocks of ice up to Magellan as the ship hovered in stationary orbit above the Equator.

2010 M. Hense How Astronauts use Math 11 A higher stationary weather satellite orbits Earth at a speed of about 7,000 miles per hour.

a. Remaining unchanged in condition, quality, or quantity; neither advancing nor regressing; stable, constant.

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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > remaining in specified condition > through lack of movement

stationary1628

unfleetinga1640

unebbing1652

stative1661

fixeda1699

1628 H. Wotton Let. 11 Mar. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 565 Mine own businesses stand as they did: And..they are rather stationary then retrograde.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 163 The same harmony and stationary constitution, as it happeneth in many species, so doth it fall out sometime in Individualls.

1707 J. Dunton Pulpit-fool 61 The Cock-brain'd Multitude; Who..vary, Prograde, and Retrograde, ne'er Stationary.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 87 Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet if it has been long stationary, we must not expect to find the wages of labour very high in it.

1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 64 He was discharged as cured by his physician, even at a time when his emaciation was stationary.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 53 Such laws could be enforced only..when production and population remained..nearly stationary.

1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 288 A revelation which deals with man not as a stationary being but as advancing with a continuous growth.

1916 L. M. Phillipps Europe Unbound i. 8 Hatred of the passive and stationary attitude of a ruled people.

1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill i. 9 There is one thing that is stationary as a rock in England, namely the clergyman's stipend.

2010 V. Smil Why Amer. not New Rome 192 Taking 25 years as one generation and assuming a stationary population, such a doubling would require an annual GDP growth of 2.8%.

b. Mathematics. That is not instantaneously changing; associated with a derivative whose value is zero. Cf. stationary point n. 5.

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the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [adjective] > varying continuously > not

stationary1834

1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 252 When this well known law of least, or as it might be better called, of stationary action, is applied to the determination of the actual motion of a system, it serves only to form..the differential equations of motion.

1900 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1898–1900 5 666 The conditions for a stationary value of the integral become [etc.].

1902 V. Snyder & J. I. Hutchinson Differential & Integral Calculus xiii. 153 A point at which the direction of bending changes from positive to negative, or vice versa..is called a point of inflexion, and the tangent at such a point is called a stationary tangent.

2010 X.-S. Yang Engin. Optimization vii. 111 The main aim of the calculus of variations is to find a function that makes the integral stationary.

c. Statistics. Designating a series of observations that has attained equilibrium, so that the expected value of any function of a portion of the series is independent of the place of the portion in the series.

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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > relating to variables

multiple1898

bivariate1920

multivariate1920

univariate1928

orthogonal1933

stationary1938

Markovian1949

correlational1952

1938 H. Wold Stud. in Anal. Stationary Time Series 1 Observational series which describe phenomena changing with time may be roughly classified in two broad categories, viz. evolutive and stationary.

1975 Nature 11 Dec. 490/1 Two assumptions are commonly made about earthquakes: first, that their occurrence has a stationary random Poisson distribution.

2008 S. J. Taylor Modelling Financial Time Series (ed. 2) ii. 39 Returns could come from a stationary process yet appear to have fluctuating standard deviations.

†3. Standing, as opposed to sitting. Obsolete.In quots. with reference to a person's posture in religious worship.

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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [adjective]

upstandingc1000

struttinga1643

stationary1656

standing1672

stake-stuck1751

1656 H. L'Estrange Observator Observed 19 My Reverence I must do by Genuflection and bowing of the knee, which cannot be done but in a Stationary posture.

1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 120 The stationary posture is most significant.

II. Of or belonging to a station or stations.

4. Surveying. Relating to a surveying station; (station n. 6a); joining such stations. Cf. station distance n., station line n. (a) at station n. Compounds 2, and stationary point n. 1. Now rare.

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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [adjective] > belonging to a station

stationary?a1560

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxiii. sig. G iij ^v Draw an arcke rising from the same line that representeth your stationarie distance.

1610 A. Hopton Baculum Geodæticum ii. i. 19 That your stationary line, or line that you measure, be not too short.

1727 J. Douglas Surveyor's Utmost Desire Fulfilled 26 The following Fig. 1. shall be the supposed Field to be survey'd, where A is the angular and stationary Point, from whence the Observation is to be made.

a1761 R. Gibson Treat. Pract. Surv. (1767) v. 219 The Difference of Latitude, or the Northing or Southing of any Stationary Line, is the Distance that one End of the Line is North or South from the other End.

1873 A. Schuyler Surv. & Navigation (new ed.) 303 To calculate the area included between the stationary line CD and the line passing along the middle of the river.

1966 A. W. Richeson Eng. Land Measuring to 1800 vi. 151 If all the angles and stationary lines are carefully measured and if the sum of the stationary lines does not exceed four miles, then an error of at least one chain can be detected.

5. Christian Church.

a. Of or relating to a station (station n. 19a); designating a church in which a station (station n. 25b) is held. Now historical.

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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > stational > [adjective]

stationary1600

stational1718

mansionary1868

1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel v. 100 Their [sc. Jesuits'] stationarie obambulations about the limits of parishes.

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 56 Giovanni Maggi was an excellent Painter and Etcher, as he has sufficiently discovered..in the nine priviledg'd and stationary Churches.

1675 Morning-exercise against Popery xx. 690 The stationary Indulgences of the City of Rome, that is, the Indulgences annexed to every Church, granted to those that visit them.

1756 C. Smith Antient & Present State Kerry v. 114 Here are several stone crosses erected, at which, the pilgrims perform certain stationary prayers.

a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) I. 222 One of the seven ancient stationary churches at Rome.

1827 J. Garbett Nullity Rom. Faith vi. 268 There are also what are called ‘stationary indulgences’, granted to those who visit the churches at Rome, &c.

1847 J. R. Beard People's Dict. Bible 432/2 Processional or stationary crosses afford a full proof with what zeal the Christians of old adorned their churches.

1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms at Acolyte In Rome acolytes were of four kinds: 1. Palatial..2. Stationary, who served in the church where a station was made.

1916 J. Walsh Mass & Vestm. Catholic Church xxxiii. 371 There are in all one hundred and one stationary churches in Rome for eighty-four days.

2001 W. de Boer Conquest of Soul iii. 109 In 1573, the diarist Giambattista Casale noted, such tile were used in stationary churches.

b. Of or relating to the fasts observed on Wednesdays and Fridays, chiefly by the early church; designating such a fast. Cf. station n. 26. Chiefly historical.

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1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iii. iv. 282 It is no wonder..that all the set and stationary fasts of the Primitive Christians were called Quadragesimals.

1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling i. v. 109 Their time of dining..is often as late as the stationary hours of the Primitive Fasts.

1692 W. Wotton tr. L. E. Du Pin New Hist. Eccl. Writers I. 94/2 The Stationary days, that is to say, those days when several of the Faithful, continued in Prayer and Fasting, till Three a Clock in the Afternoon.

1713 Bp. P. Browne Of Drinking in Remembrance of Dead 50 The Orthodox apprehended themselves to be free from the necessary Observation of the Stationary Fasts.

1734 B. Ingham Let. 27 Feb. in L. Tyerman Oxf. Methodists (1873) 78 Supposing a friend to visit me on a stationary day, how must I behave myself?

1783 J. Erskine Attempt to promote Frequent Dispensing Lord's Supper 26 Some..declined receiving the sacrament on the stationary days..for fear of breaking their fast.

1844 tr. St. Cyprian Epist. 99 They broke in upon us, in our worship on a stationary-day.

1880 W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. II. 1619/2 The usual stationary fasts..were originally not resumed till the week succeeding the Octave.

1908 G. Balleine Hist. Evangelical Party in Church of Eng. i. 8 To this [sc. Communion] they now added the observance of the canonical hours of prayer, the stationary fasts on Wednesday and Friday, and the Saturday Sabbath.

2006 S. McKnight Fasting vii. 86 The origins of Christian stationary fasting are both Jewish custom and Jesus' practice.

6. Of or belonging to a military post or garrison; designating a military post. Also in extended use. Cf. station n. 3a.

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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [adjective]

stationary1603

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 319 His archers..deliuered their arrowes and bullets..into the citie,..thereby to trouble the stationarie souldiours.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 179 The stationarie or garrison souldiors [L. praesidiarii milites].

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 331 The Stationary Angels that wait upon the Throne of God.

1759 Monitor No. 205. 1238 That chain of forts, and stationary garrisons placed along the Missisippi.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xviii. 105 The stationary troops of Singara retired on the approach of Sapor.

1850 C. C. Moore G. Castriot viii. 267 The army of Scanderbeg retired with their own baggage and the spoils of the enemy to the stationary garrison.

1897 C. Bigham With Turkish Army in Thessaly iii. 19 His lines of communication were not particularly well supplied with stationary troops to repel an attack from the sea.

1922 U.S. Naval Med. Bull. 17 1008 Doubtful or suspected cases are sent to a stationary (garrison) hospital.

2006 A. Jemadu in A. Reid Verandah of Violence xiii. 247 The large number of stationary garrison or framework troops..prevented GAM from creeping in behind the lines.

III. Senses relating to stationer n.¹

7. Also in form stationery. Of or relating to a stationer (in various senses of stationer n.¹). Now rare.In quot. 1631 with reference to the writer's works being displayed in a bookshop (cf. stationer n.¹ 1a).In later use probably reanalysed as attributive use of stationery n.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > [adjective]

stationary1631

stationery1746

1631 I. Craven Gods Tribunall Ep. Ded. sig. A 2 Consciousnesse of mine owne meanenesse, and..the great disparity twixt a liuely voice, and breathlesse lines, haue easily disswaded me hitherto from appearing in Stationary view.

1668 in W. Rowland tr. J. Feyens New Treat. Spirits & Wind sig. I4^v (advt.) School-Books, Bibles, &c. and Stationary-ware.

1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) 153 To Marg^t Royston..in satisfacc'on of so much money due to her for stationery wares supplied by her husband to the Earle of Middleton,..133 11 0.

1716 London Gaz. No. 5438/3 Proposals..for furnishing the Custom-House with Stationary Wares.

1762 Bk. Catal. in C. Evans Amer. Bibliogr. (1905) III. 328 At which place will be found a constant supply of books and stationary ware of all sorts.

1821 Monthly Repository Theol. & Gen. Lit. Aug. 443/2 He..fell into several other branches of trade, such as the stationery ware of all kinds.

1918 Amer. Stationer & Office Outfitter 17 Aug. 14/1 Every class of stationery ware is affected by the conditions which prevail, and the great difficulty is to maintain a respectable stock.

B. n.

†1. = stationer n.¹ 1a. Obsolete.

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society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > other officers of royal or great household

yeoman of the crown1450

sea-fisher1455

solicitor1460

stationary1462

Clerk of the Signet1489

prothonotary1502

Clerk of the Check1541

yeoman of the revels1552

yeoman of the tents1552

Queen's Remembrancer1647

labourer in trust1746

Master of the Buckhounds1753

cock-crower1785

ministerial1818

1462–3 in H. E. Salter Registrum Cancelarii Oxoniensis (1932) II. 101 (MED) Theys beyn the godes of Syre W. Lydbery that byn praysyd by Jhon More, stasynary, and Jhon Harys, bydull & supervysor.

1485–6 Act of Resumption in Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1485 m. 24 Lettres patentes made under oure greate seale to Piers Actores of thoffice of oure stacionary.

2. Elliptical uses of the adjective.

†a. Christian Church. An indulgence given for attending a station (station n. 19a). Obsolete. rare.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > remission of penance > [noun] > indulgentiary > for attending station

stationary1537

1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. D.i^v How some brought forth..pardons, & these of wonderful varietie, some Stationaries [L. stacionarias], some Iubilaryes.

b. Astronomy. A celestial object when stationary (sense A. 1a); an occasion when such an object is stationary. Also figurative. Now rare.

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the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > stationary

stationary1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. xvi. 11 As also, that then they [sc. the planets] are Stationaries in their houses which be in the middle points of the latitudes, which they cal eclipticks [L. stationes in mediis latitudinum articulis, quae vocant ecliptica].

1704 E. Arwaker Thoughts well Employ'd iii. 35 He cannot allow himself to be a Stationary in his Christian Race, and believes he is retrograde, if not in a progressive motion.

1893 Eng. Mechanic 3 Feb. 540/3 From 70 meteors of short path and four coincident stationaries, he fixed the radiant at 28° + 30°.

1929 L. E. Johndro Stars Contents p. vii Planetary stationaries and magnetic intensities.

2002 Earth, Moon & Planets 91 98 We calculate the apparent motion of asteroids..to get the necessary data at one opposition and two stationaries during their retrograde motion periods.

c. Military. A member of a force garrisoned at a particular station (station n. 3a). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > member of national or municipal guard

halberdier1517

partisan1649

stationary1698

milicien1760

gendarme1796

municipal1837

national1843

carabiniere1847

Pasdaran1979

Pasdar1980

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 359 Besides 80000 Stationaries to and again in Garisons.

1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. V. vii. iv. 275 Sir Edward Hawke and Sir Charles Hardy were stationaries in the bay of Quiberon.

1922 N. Gallizier Lotus Woman ii. ii. 174 Through a wicket in the outer hall the chief steward could see a company of stationaries in full panoply.

d. A person resistant to movement or change; spec. a politician considered hostile to progress, a reactionary.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [noun] > person

mumpsimus1530

inveteratist1715

reactionary1799

statu quo-ite1816

retrograde1825

redneck1830

stationary1831

stick-in-the-mud1832

reactionist1834

retrogradist1836

retrogressionist1848

mountainy man1851

misoneist1891

reactionarist1907

blimp1934

Neanderthal1966

hard hat1970

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right > opposition to progress > adherent of

stationary1831

stand-patter1902

1831 Examiner 225/1 ‘The lame and impotent conclusion’ which the Stationaries are desirous of putting to the Revolution of July.

1839 Gentleman's Mag. June 591/2 The language having been considerably enriched by the victory obtained by the Neologists over the Stationaries.

1852 Mrs P. Sinnett tr. E. R. Huc Trav. xv. 234 The caravan became henceforth divided between the party of movement and that of resistance—the progressives and the stationaries.

1893 G. J. Holyoake 60 Years Agitator's Life (ed. 3) II. lxxi. 76 Lord Palmerston..was a Minister of the stationaries, and for years was kept in office by Whig and Tory, because he could be trusted not to do anything.

2009 F. Viola Finding Org. Church iv. 96 Apostolic workers are travelers, not settlers. They are pioneers, not stationaries.

3. Roman History. A member of a detachment of soldiers on police or guard duties.

ΚΠ

1727 H. Herbert tr. C. Fleury Eccl. Hist. I. 544 I will read the information given in by the Stationary [Fr. le stationaire] concerning these persons here present.

1858 Sunday-school Reader 31 Here the ‘stationaries’, as the governor's deputies were called, suspecting our travellers to be Christians, seized them.

1880 Churchman's Compan. Jan. 49 Coelius recognised..tribunes of the Stationaries or imperial troops.

1916 T. E. Harré Behold Woman iv. 88 Squads of stationaries, summoned forth by the riot, poured from the folding doors of guard-houses.

†4. Roman Catholic Church. A member of an order of acolytes in Rome whose role is to assist with the celebration of stations (station n. 25b). Cf. stationar n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > stationar

stationar1868

stationary1868

1868 M. E. C. Walcott Sacred Archæol. 558 [Three orders of acolytes] Palatines..; stationaries, those connected with the arrangement of stations and processions; and regionaries.

Compounds

stationary air n. Physiology (now rare) = functional residual capacity n. at functional adj. and n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [noun] > air in lungs

residual volume1849

stationary air1866

tidal air1872

1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. iv. 96 There is nothing interposed between the fresh tidal air and the stationary air.

1878 Jrnl. Physiol. 1 149 When..the lungs are emptied, some of this pure air must be left in the mouth, and, in the immediately succeeding inspiration, will be sent into the lungs as a sort of ‘tidal air’ with some of the air just expelled from them, which will correspond to the ‘stationary air’ of the mammal.

1903 D. C. Kimber Text-bk. Anat. & Physiol. for Nurses xiii. 159 The air remaining in the lungs after expiration is called the old or stationary air into which fresh air is introduced with every respiration.

2007 A. Gledhill et al. Sport & Exercise Sci. (ed. 2) i. 39/1 This 150cm³ is known as dead or stationary air.

stationary bicycle n. chiefly North American a fixed piece of exercise equipment resembling a bicycle; = exercise bicycle n. at exercise n. Additions.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > equipment > others

trochus1706

troque1743

chamber horse1747

dumb-bell1785

stock1831

rowing machine1848

chest-expander1850

weights1862

stationary bicycle1883

punching bag1888

medicine ball1895

punching ball1895

stationary bike1899

kettlebell1908

rower1933

Exercycle1936

exercise bicycle1937

exercise bike1946

exercise cycle1952

roller1970

life cycle1973

multi-gym1976

gut-buster1983

roller1992

1883 Michigan Argonaut 10 Mar. 213/2 There has been placed in one of the eastern college gymnasiums a stationary bicycle for those who wish to train for the summer races.

1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate ii. 53 Pedalled for hours on the stationary bicycle to keep her figure.

2004 Metro (Toronto) 2 Nov. 17/1 If you're fortunate enough to have a stationary bicycle, treadmill or elliptical machine at home, great!

stationary bike n. chiefly North American = stationary bicycle n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > equipment > others

trochus1706

troque1743

chamber horse1747

dumb-bell1785

stock1831

rowing machine1848

chest-expander1850

weights1862

stationary bicycle1883

punching bag1888

medicine ball1895

punching ball1895

stationary bike1899

kettlebell1908

rower1933

Exercycle1936

exercise bicycle1937

exercise bike1946

exercise cycle1952

roller1970

life cycle1973

multi-gym1976

gut-buster1983

roller1992

1899 Denver Evening Post 21 Mar. 5/3 He has various means of taking exercise, including a stationary bike.

1932 Chester (Pa.) Times 7 Jan. 1/5 The Babe boxed, ran on a treadmill, rode a stationary bike, [etc.].

2002 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 18 Aug. (body + soul section) 9/3 Spinning is a class done on stationary bikes. It's basically a moderate to high intensity workout.

stationary motion n. Physics motion in which position and distance fluctuate but do not undergo any overall change; also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > [noun] > motion within limited space

stationary motion1870

stationarity1901

1870 tr. R. Clausius in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 40 123 By stationary motion I mean one in which the points do not continually remove further and further from their original position, and the velocities do not alter continuously in the same direction, but the points move within a limited space, and the velocities only fluctuate within certain limits.

1903 B. Torrey Clerk of Woods 95 Round and round they went,—a kind of stationary motion, a spectator might have called it.

1979 SIAM Jrnl. Appl. Math. 37 284 For the stationary motion in the force field with potential Π the analog of the Bernoulli integral can be written [etc.].

2004 Physical Rev. E. 69 046105-1 The stationary motion of active Brownian particles is studied by using the stochastic averaging method for quasi-integrable Hamiltonian systems.

stationary state n. an unchanging or unvarying state, a steady state; spec. (a) Economics a period in which economic growth does not occur in an economy (city, region, country, etc.) because all relevant economic variables (consumption, productivity, investment, etc.) are constant; (b) Physics any of the stable orbits of the electrons in the Bohr model of the atom; a quantum state with a definite energy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > [noun] > stable orbit

stationary state1913

1775 J. Anderson Ess. Agric. vi. 227 Now, if the plant be always cut when it approaches towards that stationary state, it will be always in the state of vigorous vegetation.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 99 The condition of the labouring poor..is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state.

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. iv. vi. §1 306 At the end of what they term the progressive state lies the stationary state..all progress in wealth is but a postponement of this.

1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 211 As a rule a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition of man.

1913 N. Bohr in London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 26 7 The dynamical equilibrium of the systems in the stationary states can be discussed by help of the ordinary mechanics, while the passing of the systems between different stationary states cannot be treated on that basis.

1932 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 359 Each spectral term..may be taken to represent, for the corresponding stationary state of the atom, the work necessary to remove the electron to an infinite distance from the proton.

1986 Oxf. Econ. Papers 38 190 Sooner or later all avenues will inevitably lead to the long run equilibrium of the Stationary State.

2006 F. Wilczek Fantastic Realities 308 Transitions between these stationary states were supposed to occur only discontinuously, with the release of all the energy into light.

stationary wave n. a wave that oscillates in place having fixed positions of minimum and maximum displacement; = standing wave n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > types of motion > [noun] > wave > types of wave

long wave1792

internal wave1804

stationary wave1833

solitary wave1838

standing wave1845

travelling wave1845

pressure wave1871

ripple1871

surface wave1887

sine wave1893

Rayleigh wave1903

shock wave1907

spherical wave1907

Love wave1924

bow shock1938

Rossby wave1951

soliton1965

1833 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 608 In a square vessel containing water or mercury, two series of stationary waves, one parallel to each side, may be made to intersect each other.

1890 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 5th Ser. 29 275 The Hertzian stationary waves are never so well marked as they would ordinarily be calculated.

1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) ii. iii. 185 The stationary waves are best developed in those parts of the oceans corresponding most closely to the period of the tide-producing force.

1973 Musical Times 114 925/2 Aside from the beat patterns set up between the sources, there were sudden and overwhelming cloudings of the aural sense when a stationary wave was formed in the theatre.

2001 C. Carter Physics: Facts & Pract. for A Level xii. 47 If two identical waves are travelling in opposite directions, a standing or stationary wave is formed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	stationary
释义	stationaryadj.n. Brit. /ˈsteɪʃn̩(ə)ri/, /ˈsteɪʃən(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛri/ Forms: Middle English stacionary, Middle English stacionarye, Middle English stacyonarye, Middle English stationarye, Middle English stasynary, 1500s stacionarie, 1500s–1600s stationarie, 1600s 1800s– stationery (in sense A. 7), 1600s– stationary; also Scottish pre-1700 stationeir. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin statiōnārius. Etymology: < classical Latin statiōnārius (adjective) belonging to a detachment (of soldiers on police or guard duties), (noun) soldier serving in such a detachment (attested in both uses in inscriptions and in legal texts), in post-classical Latin also (adjective) used for the services called ‘stations’ (5th cent.), (of a planet) having a fixed station (a636 in Isidore), abiding (11th cent.), (of a canon) bound to residence (12th cent.), (noun) canon in permanent residence (from 12th cent. in British sources), shopkeeping merchant (12th cent.), bookseller (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), mendicant friar (1577 in the passage translated in quot. 1581 at stationar n. 1) < statiōn- , statiō station n. + -ārius -ary suffix¹. With the development of the general meaning ‘not moving, fixed’ compare French stationnaire that does not move, fixed in one place, (of a planet) having no apparent motion (13th cent. in Old French), which may have influenced the semantic development in English. Compare also Spanish estacionario (13th cent.), Portuguese estacionario (16th cent.), Italian stazionario (a1406).With sense A. 2c compare German stationär stochastisch Prozess (A. Khintchine 1934, in Math. Ann. 109 604). With sense A. 7 compare stationer n.¹; in form stationery by association with that word and (in later use) with stationery n. (compare discussion at that entry). In stationary fever at sense A. 1e after post-classical Latin febris stationaria (1676 in Sydenham). A. adj. I. Senses relating to a lack of motion or change. 1. Having a fixed station or place. a. Astronomy and Astrology. Of a planet or the sun: temporarily having no apparent motion across the sky as a result of the way its own motion appears from the moving earth. Cf. stationary point n. 3 and station n. 13. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [adjective] > stationary stationary?c1450 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xi. 477 Þre maner meouynge of planetis is..motus directus, stacionarius, and retrogradus... Stacionarius is whanne hit semeþ þat a planete stondiþ and abidiþ as it were in þe myddil.] ?c1450 (a1388) tr. Richard of Wallingford Exafrenon (Digby) in J. D. North Wks. Richard of Wallingford (1976) I. 213 (MED) Here is a good shorte table for to knawe when all the planetis are stacionarye or retrogrode or progressive. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox & Wolf l. 632 in Poems (1981) 28 The planeitis..Sum retrograde and sum stationeir. ?1585 W. Perkins Resol. to Countrey-man in Foure Great Lyers sig. E2^v The Sunne enteryng into Pisces was almost in trine aspect with Saturne stationarie, a little while after, there was a great frost and snowe. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 105 The star becomes stationary. 1700 J. Moxon Math. made Easie (1701) (at cited word) Hence a Planet is said to be Stationary, when he is about either of these his Stations. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xliv. 527 Venus is stationary at an elongation of about 29°, while her greatest elongation is between 45° and 48°. 1912 L. George Astrol. Gleanings 98 When a benefic planet is stationary or retrograde its power for good is weakened. 1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 92 Three superior planets dance about, now stationary, now direct..gracefully undulant. 2001 P. Moore 2002 Yearbk. Astron. i. 84 Jupiter is almost stationary in the western part of Gemini. b. Residing or established in one place; not itinerant or migratory. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > established in residence steadfasta1272 stationary1604 settled1611 domestic1632 domesticant1642 domiciliated1782 domiciled1855 1604 M. Sutcliffe Full Answer to N. D. ii. vii. 184 Cousinage of stationarie Friars or limitors. 1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 15 As sundry Laws provided against wandring Beggers..so this Law provides for, and relieves stationary Beggers. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. iv. 38 The court being thus rendered fixed and stationary. 1796 F. Burney Camilla I. i. i. 6 A passion for field sports had, with equal constancy, kept his brother stationary. 1816 J. Austen Emma II. xviii. 339 She has now been a longer time stationary there, than she ever was before. View more context for this quotation 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 388/1 The stationary lace sellers, for the most part, display their goods on stalls. 1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. iv. v. 437 Instead of a stationary creature, suppose the creature contemplated to be one that habitually moves about in the water. 1900 Daily News 17 May 3/2 A field hospital is a very different affair from a stationary base hospital. 1958 A. D. Cruickshank & H. G. Cruickshank 1001 Questions Birds iv. 35 Most birds are filled with wanderlust and stationary birds are an exception. 1996 New Scientist 31 Aug. 35/2 A bacterial chemical called homoserine lactone swings dramatically into action, signalling the pioneers to turn into stationary city dwellers. c. Having a fixed position; not meant to move; (of a machine or part of a machine) that remains in one spot when in operation. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place stablea1400 dormantc1440 standing1469 remanent?a1475 ledger1547 fixed1559 restiff1578 statary1581 permanent1588 consistent1604 stationary1631 fundamental1633 resident1653 sedentary1667 statual1752 loco-restive1796 untransmigrated1821 stabile1896 static1910 sessile1917 1631 W. Foster Hoplocrisma-spongus 45 It may meet with stationary immoveable bodies, as wals, woods, houses, castles, [etc.]. 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. iv. 172 Thus much of those Automata, which were said to be fixed and stationary. 1779 S. Musgrave Reasons for Dissenting 7 The two cylinders will remain stationary, neither of them ascending or descending. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 115 The forcing-pump is furnished with two valves, which are both stationary. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 661 The low pressure engines used in vessels, which are made twice as strong as stationary engines. 1919 L. H. Morrison Oil Engines ii. 22 A two-stroke-cycle engine that is applicable both for stationary and marine work. 1949 Our Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) (ed. 2) i. 14 Power kerosine..is used mainly for agricultural tractors and stationary engines. 2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 44 The turning of the wheel would turn a shaft, which would..eventually work the millstones in pairs, the lower one stationary, the upper one moving. d. Standing still; not currently moving. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining stationary standing1525 restinga1616 stationary1668 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. Alphabetical Dict. (at cited word) Stationary [adj. Standing]. 1683 G. Sinclair Nat. Philos. Improven 3/1 It [sc. the index of a hygroscope] is likewise stationary, or standing, when the Air is setled, as to wetness, or dryness. 1705 Plot's Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire (ed. 2) ix. 314 The Mercury of the common Baroscope is often known to be Stationary 14 Hours together. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. iii. 74 It was still stationary, and she began to doubt, whether it was really animated. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic iv. 65 So that the image may remain stationary. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 2 Every stationary boat or barge..split the current into a broad-arrow-head. 1906 J. W. Young tr. H. Poincaré in Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 243 The principle of relativity, according to which the laws of physical phenomena must be the same for a stationary observer as for one carried along in a uniform motion. 1942 J. T. Gorman Mod. Weapons War ix. 147 Stationary tanks can be disabled by dropping grenades or Molotov cocktails through the ventilating openings. 1975 Chicago Tribune 14 Apr. iii. 14/1 Keeping your feet stationary, ‘walk’ your hands away from you, slowly. 2006 M. W. Jackson Harmonious Triads viii. 274 If one moves the lens while the point remains stationary, the point itself will actually appear to move. e. Medicine. Of a disease: tending to recur in one locality over a period of time; endemic; esp. in stationary fever. Now historical.Used esp. with reference to the terminology of Thomas Sydenham. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > climate impaludism1881 paludism1888 stationary fever1928 1684 C. Goodall Hist. Acct. College's Proc. against Empiricks in Royal Coll. Physicians London sig. Xx^v These Fevers he [sc. Sydenham] calls Stationary, distinguishing them from the Sporadique, or Intercurrent Fevers depending upon the manifest qualities or alterations of the Air. 1696 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. i. ii. 5 Therefore I call these Fevers stationary [L. Febres..Stationariae]. 1742 J. Swan in tr. T. Sydenham Entire Wks. (1753) i. ii. 5 (margin) Stationary fevers defined. 1847 G. Milroy in Lancet 17 Apr. 400/2 I now proceed to notice the treatment of the pestilential fever and the plague of the years 1665 and 1666, these two being the predominant and stationary diseases of the second epidemic constitution. 1928 E. W. Goodall Text-bk. Infectious Dis. (ed. 3) 46 Sydenham..postulated an unknown something in the atmosphere, arising sometimes perhaps from the bowels of the earth, which determined for a period what should be the epidemic disease chiefly prevalent, and that disease was the ‘stationary fever’. f. Of a battle: fought in one place, without either side advancing or retreating. Cf. static adj. 11. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [adjective] > types of armed encounter openeOE set battle1487 unbloody1544 pight1562 pitched1569 round1601 steadfast1623 strucka1625 running1651 stationary1737 stricken field1820 close quarters1871 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Jewish War vi. ii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 927 This fight was, for the most part, a stationary one. 1818 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) V. xlvi. 131 On approaching the bank it [sc. Alexander's army] suffered, and on reaching it was..met in stationary fight. 1864 National Rev. Nov. 125 The French battle was stationary, for Bosquet..was too weak in infantry to move forward. 1915–9 J. Buchan Nelson's Hist. War XXIII. clviii. 10 The German staff..allowed an action which was based essentially on surprise to drift into a stationary battle. 2006 J. L. Tone War & Genocide in Cuba, 1895–1898 x. 136 A long, stationary battle would have been foolish. g. Of an artificial satellite: appearing to remain stationary in the sky above a fixed point on the surface of the body it is orbiting (as a result of orbiting in the plane of the equator once each day). Also: designating such an orbit. Cf. geostationary adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > secondary planet, satellite > [adjective] > geostationary stationary1947 geostationary1960 geosynchronous1967 1947 Amer. Jrnl. Physics 15 261 An interesting special case of the satellite rocket is the so-called ‘stationary satellite’, the angular velocity of which is identical with the spin velocity of the earth. 1961 C. T. Morrow Symp. Ballistic Missile & Aerospace Technol. I. 207 Methods by which a satellite can be injected into the 24-hour equatorial or stationary orbit. 1986 A. C. Clarke Songs of Distant Earth 204 They were..using cables of superstrength material to lift the great blocks of ice up to Magellan as the ship hovered in stationary orbit above the Equator. 2010 M. Hense How Astronauts use Math 11 A higher stationary weather satellite orbits Earth at a speed of about 7,000 miles per hour. 2. a. Remaining unchanged in condition, quality, or quantity; neither advancing nor regressing; stable, constant. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > remaining in specified condition > through lack of movement stationary1628 unfleetinga1640 unebbing1652 stative1661 fixeda1699 1628 H. Wotton Let. 11 Mar. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 565 Mine own businesses stand as they did: And..they are rather stationary then retrograde. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 163 The same harmony and stationary constitution, as it happeneth in many species, so doth it fall out sometime in Individualls. View more context for this quotation 1707 J. Dunton Pulpit-fool 61 The Cock-brain'd Multitude; Who..vary, Prograde, and Retrograde, ne'er Stationary. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 87 Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet if it has been long stationary, we must not expect to find the wages of labour very high in it. View more context for this quotation 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 64 He was discharged as cured by his physician, even at a time when his emaciation was stationary. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 53 Such laws could be enforced only..when production and population remained..nearly stationary. 1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 288 A revelation which deals with man not as a stationary being but as advancing with a continuous growth. 1916 L. M. Phillipps Europe Unbound i. 8 Hatred of the passive and stationary attitude of a ruled people. 1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill i. 9 There is one thing that is stationary as a rock in England, namely the clergyman's stipend. 2010 V. Smil Why Amer. not New Rome 192 Taking 25 years as one generation and assuming a stationary population, such a doubling would require an annual GDP growth of 2.8%. b. Mathematics. That is not instantaneously changing; associated with a derivative whose value is zero. Cf. stationary point n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [adjective] > varying continuously > not stationary1834 1834 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 252 When this well known law of least, or as it might be better called, of stationary action, is applied to the determination of the actual motion of a system, it serves only to form..the differential equations of motion. 1900 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1898–1900 5 666 The conditions for a stationary value of the integral become [etc.]. 1902 V. Snyder & J. I. Hutchinson Differential & Integral Calculus xiii. 153 A point at which the direction of bending changes from positive to negative, or vice versa..is called a point of inflexion, and the tangent at such a point is called a stationary tangent. 2010 X.-S. Yang Engin. Optimization vii. 111 The main aim of the calculus of variations is to find a function that makes the integral stationary. c. Statistics. Designating a series of observations that has attained equilibrium, so that the expected value of any function of a portion of the series is independent of the place of the portion in the series. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > relating to variables multiple1898 bivariate1920 multivariate1920 univariate1928 orthogonal1933 stationary1938 Markovian1949 correlational1952 1938 H. Wold Stud. in Anal. Stationary Time Series 1 Observational series which describe phenomena changing with time may be roughly classified in two broad categories, viz. evolutive and stationary. 1975 Nature 11 Dec. 490/1 Two assumptions are commonly made about earthquakes: first, that their occurrence has a stationary random Poisson distribution. 2008 S. J. Taylor Modelling Financial Time Series (ed. 2) ii. 39 Returns could come from a stationary process yet appear to have fluctuating standard deviations. †3. Standing, as opposed to sitting. Obsolete.In quots. with reference to a person's posture in religious worship. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action of standing up or rising > [adjective] upstandingc1000 struttinga1643 stationary1656 standing1672 stake-stuck1751 1656 H. L'Estrange Observator Observed 19 My Reverence I must do by Genuflection and bowing of the knee, which cannot be done but in a Stationary posture. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 120 The stationary posture is most significant. II. Of or belonging to a station or stations. 4. Surveying. Relating to a surveying station; (station n. 6a); joining such stations. Cf. station distance n., station line n. (a) at station n. Compounds 2, and stationary point n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [adjective] > belonging to a station stationary?a1560 ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxiii. sig. G iij ^v Draw an arcke rising from the same line that representeth your stationarie distance. 1610 A. Hopton Baculum Geodæticum ii. i. 19 That your stationary line, or line that you measure, be not too short. 1727 J. Douglas Surveyor's Utmost Desire Fulfilled 26 The following Fig. 1. shall be the supposed Field to be survey'd, where A is the angular and stationary Point, from whence the Observation is to be made. a1761 R. Gibson Treat. Pract. Surv. (1767) v. 219 The Difference of Latitude, or the Northing or Southing of any Stationary Line, is the Distance that one End of the Line is North or South from the other End. 1873 A. Schuyler Surv. & Navigation (new ed.) 303 To calculate the area included between the stationary line CD and the line passing along the middle of the river. 1966 A. W. Richeson Eng. Land Measuring to 1800 vi. 151 If all the angles and stationary lines are carefully measured and if the sum of the stationary lines does not exceed four miles, then an error of at least one chain can be detected. 5. Christian Church. a. Of or relating to a station (station n. 19a); designating a church in which a station (station n. 25b) is held. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > stational > [adjective] stationary1600 stational1718 mansionary1868 1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel v. 100 Their [sc. Jesuits'] stationarie obambulations about the limits of parishes. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 56 Giovanni Maggi was an excellent Painter and Etcher, as he has sufficiently discovered..in the nine priviledg'd and stationary Churches. 1675 Morning-exercise against Popery xx. 690 The stationary Indulgences of the City of Rome, that is, the Indulgences annexed to every Church, granted to those that visit them. 1756 C. Smith Antient & Present State Kerry v. 114 Here are several stone crosses erected, at which, the pilgrims perform certain stationary prayers. a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) I. 222 One of the seven ancient stationary churches at Rome. 1827 J. Garbett Nullity Rom. Faith vi. 268 There are also what are called ‘stationary indulgences’, granted to those who visit the churches at Rome, &c. 1847 J. R. Beard People's Dict. Bible 432/2 Processional or stationary crosses afford a full proof with what zeal the Christians of old adorned their churches. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms at Acolyte In Rome acolytes were of four kinds: 1. Palatial..2. Stationary, who served in the church where a station was made. 1916 J. Walsh Mass & Vestm. Catholic Church xxxiii. 371 There are in all one hundred and one stationary churches in Rome for eighty-four days. 2001 W. de Boer Conquest of Soul iii. 109 In 1573, the diarist Giambattista Casale noted, such tile were used in stationary churches. b. Of or relating to the fasts observed on Wednesdays and Fridays, chiefly by the early church; designating such a fast. Cf. station n. 26. Chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iii. iv. 282 It is no wonder..that all the set and stationary fasts of the Primitive Christians were called Quadragesimals. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling i. v. 109 Their time of dining..is often as late as the stationary hours of the Primitive Fasts. 1692 W. Wotton tr. L. E. Du Pin New Hist. Eccl. Writers I. 94/2 The Stationary days, that is to say, those days when several of the Faithful, continued in Prayer and Fasting, till Three a Clock in the Afternoon. 1713 Bp. P. Browne Of Drinking in Remembrance of Dead 50 The Orthodox apprehended themselves to be free from the necessary Observation of the Stationary Fasts. 1734 B. Ingham Let. 27 Feb. in L. Tyerman Oxf. Methodists (1873) 78 Supposing a friend to visit me on a stationary day, how must I behave myself? 1783 J. Erskine Attempt to promote Frequent Dispensing Lord's Supper 26 Some..declined receiving the sacrament on the stationary days..for fear of breaking their fast. 1844 tr. St. Cyprian Epist. 99 They broke in upon us, in our worship on a stationary-day. 1880 W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. II. 1619/2 The usual stationary fasts..were originally not resumed till the week succeeding the Octave. 1908 G. Balleine Hist. Evangelical Party in Church of Eng. i. 8 To this [sc. Communion] they now added the observance of the canonical hours of prayer, the stationary fasts on Wednesday and Friday, and the Saturday Sabbath. 2006 S. McKnight Fasting vii. 86 The origins of Christian stationary fasting are both Jewish custom and Jesus' practice. 6. Of or belonging to a military post or garrison; designating a military post. Also in extended use. Cf. station n. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [adjective] stationary1603 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 319 His archers..deliuered their arrowes and bullets..into the citie,..thereby to trouble the stationarie souldiours. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 179 The stationarie or garrison souldiors [L. praesidiarii milites]. 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 331 The Stationary Angels that wait upon the Throne of God. 1759 Monitor No. 205. 1238 That chain of forts, and stationary garrisons placed along the Missisippi. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xviii. 105 The stationary troops of Singara retired on the approach of Sapor. 1850 C. C. Moore G. Castriot viii. 267 The army of Scanderbeg retired with their own baggage and the spoils of the enemy to the stationary garrison. 1897 C. Bigham With Turkish Army in Thessaly iii. 19 His lines of communication were not particularly well supplied with stationary troops to repel an attack from the sea. 1922 U.S. Naval Med. Bull. 17 1008 Doubtful or suspected cases are sent to a stationary (garrison) hospital. 2006 A. Jemadu in A. Reid Verandah of Violence xiii. 247 The large number of stationary garrison or framework troops..prevented GAM from creeping in behind the lines. III. Senses relating to stationer n.¹ 7. Also in form stationery. Of or relating to a stationer (in various senses of stationer n.¹). Now rare.In quot. 1631 with reference to the writer's works being displayed in a bookshop (cf. stationer n.¹ 1a).In later use probably reanalysed as attributive use of stationery n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > [adjective] stationary1631 stationery1746 1631 I. Craven Gods Tribunall Ep. Ded. sig. A 2 Consciousnesse of mine owne meanenesse, and..the great disparity twixt a liuely voice, and breathlesse lines, haue easily disswaded me hitherto from appearing in Stationary view. 1668 in W. Rowland tr. J. Feyens New Treat. Spirits & Wind sig. I4^v (advt.) School-Books, Bibles, &c. and Stationary-ware. 1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) 153 To Marg^t Royston..in satisfacc'on of so much money due to her for stationery wares supplied by her husband to the Earle of Middleton,..133 11 0. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5438/3 Proposals..for furnishing the Custom-House with Stationary Wares. 1762 Bk. Catal. in C. Evans Amer. Bibliogr. (1905) III. 328 At which place will be found a constant supply of books and stationary ware of all sorts. 1821 Monthly Repository Theol. & Gen. Lit. Aug. 443/2 He..fell into several other branches of trade, such as the stationery ware of all kinds. 1918 Amer. Stationer & Office Outfitter 17 Aug. 14/1 Every class of stationery ware is affected by the conditions which prevail, and the great difficulty is to maintain a respectable stock. B. n. †1. = stationer n.¹ 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > other officers of royal or great household yeoman of the crown1450 sea-fisher1455 solicitor1460 stationary1462 Clerk of the Signet1489 prothonotary1502 Clerk of the Check1541 yeoman of the revels1552 yeoman of the tents1552 Queen's Remembrancer1647 labourer in trust1746 Master of the Buckhounds1753 cock-crower1785 ministerial1818 1462–3 in H. E. Salter Registrum Cancelarii Oxoniensis (1932) II. 101 (MED) Theys beyn the godes of Syre W. Lydbery that byn praysyd by Jhon More, stasynary, and Jhon Harys, bydull & supervysor. 1485–6 Act of Resumption in Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1485 m. 24 Lettres patentes made under oure greate seale to Piers Actores of thoffice of oure stacionary. 2. Elliptical uses of the adjective. †a. Christian Church. An indulgence given for attending a station (station n. 19a). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > remission of penance > [noun] > indulgentiary > for attending station stationary1537 1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. D.i^v How some brought forth..pardons, & these of wonderful varietie, some Stationaries [L. stacionarias], some Iubilaryes. b. Astronomy. A celestial object when stationary (sense A. 1a); an occasion when such an object is stationary. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > stationary stationary1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. xvi. 11 As also, that then they [sc. the planets] are Stationaries in their houses which be in the middle points of the latitudes, which they cal eclipticks [L. stationes in mediis latitudinum articulis, quae vocant ecliptica]. 1704 E. Arwaker Thoughts well Employ'd iii. 35 He cannot allow himself to be a Stationary in his Christian Race, and believes he is retrograde, if not in a progressive motion. 1893 Eng. Mechanic 3 Feb. 540/3 From 70 meteors of short path and four coincident stationaries, he fixed the radiant at 28° + 30°. 1929 L. E. Johndro Stars Contents p. vii Planetary stationaries and magnetic intensities. 2002 Earth, Moon & Planets 91 98 We calculate the apparent motion of asteroids..to get the necessary data at one opposition and two stationaries during their retrograde motion periods. c. Military. A member of a force garrisoned at a particular station (station n. 3a). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > member of national or municipal guard halberdier1517 partisan1649 stationary1698 milicien1760 gendarme1796 municipal1837 national1843 carabiniere1847 Pasdaran1979 Pasdar1980 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 359 Besides 80000 Stationaries to and again in Garisons. 1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. V. vii. iv. 275 Sir Edward Hawke and Sir Charles Hardy were stationaries in the bay of Quiberon. 1922 N. Gallizier Lotus Woman ii. ii. 174 Through a wicket in the outer hall the chief steward could see a company of stationaries in full panoply. d. A person resistant to movement or change; spec. a politician considered hostile to progress, a reactionary. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [noun] > person mumpsimus1530 inveteratist1715 reactionary1799 statu quo-ite1816 retrograde1825 redneck1830 stationary1831 stick-in-the-mud1832 reactionist1834 retrogradist1836 retrogressionist1848 mountainy man1851 misoneist1891 reactionarist1907 blimp1934 Neanderthal1966 hard hat1970 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right > opposition to progress > adherent of stationary1831 stand-patter1902 1831 Examiner 225/1 ‘The lame and impotent conclusion’ which the Stationaries are desirous of putting to the Revolution of July. 1839 Gentleman's Mag. June 591/2 The language having been considerably enriched by the victory obtained by the Neologists over the Stationaries. 1852 Mrs P. Sinnett tr. E. R. Huc Trav. xv. 234 The caravan became henceforth divided between the party of movement and that of resistance—the progressives and the stationaries. 1893 G. J. Holyoake 60 Years Agitator's Life (ed. 3) II. lxxi. 76 Lord Palmerston..was a Minister of the stationaries, and for years was kept in office by Whig and Tory, because he could be trusted not to do anything. 2009 F. Viola Finding Org. Church iv. 96 Apostolic workers are travelers, not settlers. They are pioneers, not stationaries. 3. Roman History. A member of a detachment of soldiers on police or guard duties. ΚΠ 1727 H. Herbert tr. C. Fleury Eccl. Hist. I. 544 I will read the information given in by the Stationary [Fr. le stationaire] concerning these persons here present. 1858 Sunday-school Reader 31 Here the ‘stationaries’, as the governor's deputies were called, suspecting our travellers to be Christians, seized them. 1880 Churchman's Compan. Jan. 49 Coelius recognised..tribunes of the Stationaries or imperial troops. 1916 T. E. Harré Behold Woman iv. 88 Squads of stationaries, summoned forth by the riot, poured from the folding doors of guard-houses. †4. Roman Catholic Church. A member of an order of acolytes in Rome whose role is to assist with the celebration of stations (station n. 25b). Cf. stationar n. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > stationar stationar1868 stationary1868 1868 M. E. C. Walcott Sacred Archæol. 558 [Three orders of acolytes] Palatines..; stationaries, those connected with the arrangement of stations and processions; and regionaries. Compounds stationary air n. Physiology (now rare) = functional residual capacity n. at functional adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [noun] > air in lungs residual volume1849 stationary air1866 tidal air1872 1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. iv. 96 There is nothing interposed between the fresh tidal air and the stationary air. 1878 Jrnl. Physiol. 1 149 When..the lungs are emptied, some of this pure air must be left in the mouth, and, in the immediately succeeding inspiration, will be sent into the lungs as a sort of ‘tidal air’ with some of the air just expelled from them, which will correspond to the ‘stationary air’ of the mammal. 1903 D. C. Kimber Text-bk. Anat. & Physiol. for Nurses xiii. 159 The air remaining in the lungs after expiration is called the old or stationary air into which fresh air is introduced with every respiration. 2007 A. Gledhill et al. Sport & Exercise Sci. (ed. 2) i. 39/1 This 150cm³ is known as dead or stationary air. stationary bicycle n. chiefly North American a fixed piece of exercise equipment resembling a bicycle; = exercise bicycle n. at exercise n. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > equipment > others trochus1706 troque1743 chamber horse1747 dumb-bell1785 stock1831 rowing machine1848 chest-expander1850 weights1862 stationary bicycle1883 punching bag1888 medicine ball1895 punching ball1895 stationary bike1899 kettlebell1908 rower1933 Exercycle1936 exercise bicycle1937 exercise bike1946 exercise cycle1952 roller1970 life cycle1973 multi-gym1976 gut-buster1983 roller1992 1883 Michigan Argonaut 10 Mar. 213/2 There has been placed in one of the eastern college gymnasiums a stationary bicycle for those who wish to train for the summer races. 1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate ii. 53 Pedalled for hours on the stationary bicycle to keep her figure. 2004 Metro (Toronto) 2 Nov. 17/1 If you're fortunate enough to have a stationary bicycle, treadmill or elliptical machine at home, great! stationary bike n. chiefly North American = stationary bicycle n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > equipment > others trochus1706 troque1743 chamber horse1747 dumb-bell1785 stock1831 rowing machine1848 chest-expander1850 weights1862 stationary bicycle1883 punching bag1888 medicine ball1895 punching ball1895 stationary bike1899 kettlebell1908 rower1933 Exercycle1936 exercise bicycle1937 exercise bike1946 exercise cycle1952 roller1970 life cycle1973 multi-gym1976 gut-buster1983 roller1992 1899 Denver Evening Post 21 Mar. 5/3 He has various means of taking exercise, including a stationary bike. 1932 Chester (Pa.) Times 7 Jan. 1/5 The Babe boxed, ran on a treadmill, rode a stationary bike, [etc.]. 2002 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 18 Aug. (body + soul section) 9/3 Spinning is a class done on stationary bikes. It's basically a moderate to high intensity workout. stationary motion n. Physics motion in which position and distance fluctuate but do not undergo any overall change; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > [noun] > motion within limited space stationary motion1870 stationarity1901 1870 tr. R. Clausius in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 40 123 By stationary motion I mean one in which the points do not continually remove further and further from their original position, and the velocities do not alter continuously in the same direction, but the points move within a limited space, and the velocities only fluctuate within certain limits. 1903 B. Torrey Clerk of Woods 95 Round and round they went,—a kind of stationary motion, a spectator might have called it. 1979 SIAM Jrnl. Appl. Math. 37 284 For the stationary motion in the force field with potential Π the analog of the Bernoulli integral can be written [etc.]. 2004 Physical Rev. E. 69 046105-1 The stationary motion of active Brownian particles is studied by using the stochastic averaging method for quasi-integrable Hamiltonian systems. stationary state n. an unchanging or unvarying state, a steady state; spec. (a) Economics a period in which economic growth does not occur in an economy (city, region, country, etc.) because all relevant economic variables (consumption, productivity, investment, etc.) are constant; (b) Physics any of the stable orbits of the electrons in the Bohr model of the atom; a quantum state with a definite energy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > [noun] > stable orbit stationary state1913 1775 J. Anderson Ess. Agric. vi. 227 Now, if the plant be always cut when it approaches towards that stationary state, it will be always in the state of vigorous vegetation. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 99 The condition of the labouring poor..is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. View more context for this quotation 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. iv. vi. §1 306 At the end of what they term the progressive state lies the stationary state..all progress in wealth is but a postponement of this. 1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 211 As a rule a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition of man. 1913 N. Bohr in London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 26 7 The dynamical equilibrium of the systems in the stationary states can be discussed by help of the ordinary mechanics, while the passing of the systems between different stationary states cannot be treated on that basis. 1932 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 359 Each spectral term..may be taken to represent, for the corresponding stationary state of the atom, the work necessary to remove the electron to an infinite distance from the proton. 1986 Oxf. Econ. Papers 38 190 Sooner or later all avenues will inevitably lead to the long run equilibrium of the Stationary State. 2006 F. Wilczek Fantastic Realities 308 Transitions between these stationary states were supposed to occur only discontinuously, with the release of all the energy into light. stationary wave n. a wave that oscillates in place having fixed positions of minimum and maximum displacement; = standing wave n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > types of motion > [noun] > wave > types of wave long wave1792 internal wave1804 stationary wave1833 solitary wave1838 standing wave1845 travelling wave1845 pressure wave1871 ripple1871 surface wave1887 sine wave1893 Rayleigh wave1903 shock wave1907 spherical wave1907 Love wave1924 bow shock1938 Rossby wave1951 soliton1965 1833 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 608 In a square vessel containing water or mercury, two series of stationary waves, one parallel to each side, may be made to intersect each other. 1890 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 5th Ser. 29 275 The Hertzian stationary waves are never so well marked as they would ordinarily be calculated. 1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) ii. iii. 185 The stationary waves are best developed in those parts of the oceans corresponding most closely to the period of the tide-producing force. 1973 Musical Times 114 925/2 Aside from the beat patterns set up between the sources, there were sudden and overwhelming cloudings of the aural sense when a stationary wave was formed in the theatre. 2001 C. Carter Physics: Facts & Pract. for A Level xii. 47 If two identical waves are travelling in opposite directions, a standing or stationary wave is formed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.?c1450
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