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When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.
Ali Liebegott

Meaning of "stationary" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STATIONARY

From Latin statiōnārius, from statiōstation.
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PRONUNCIATION OF STATIONARY

stationary  [ˈsteɪʃənərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STATIONARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stationary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STATIONARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Stationary

Stationary may refer to: ▪ Stationary process, in statistics and probability ▪ Stationary fuel cell, a class in fuel cell applications Mathematics ▪ Stationary point ▪ Stationary set Physics ▪ Stationary spacetime ▪ A time-invariant quantity, such as a constant position or temperature ▪ A steady state physical process, such as a vibration at constant amplitude and frequency or a steady fluid flow...

Definition of stationary in the English dictionary

The first definition of stationary in the dictionary is not moving; standing still. Other definition of stationary is not able to be moved. Stationary is also showing no change.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STATIONARY


deflationary
dɪˈfleɪʃənərɪ
disinflationary
ˌdɪsɪnˈfleɪʃənərɪ
disquisitionary
ˌdɪskwɪˈzɪʃənərɪ
expeditionary
ˌɛkspɪˈdɪʃənərɪ
geostationary
ˌdʒiːəʊˈsteɪʃənərɪ
inflationary
ɪnˈfleɪʃənərɪ
libationary
laɪˈbeɪʃənərɪ
missionary
ˈmɪʃənərɪ
nonstationary
ˌnɒnˈsteɪʃənərɪ
nutritionary
njuːˈtrɪʃənərɪ
petitionary
pəˈtɪʃənərɪ
probationary
prəˈbeɪʃənərɪ
reflationary
riːˈfleɪʃənərɪ
repetitionary
ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃənərɪ
seditionary
sɪˈdɪʃənərɪ
stationery
ˈsteɪʃənərɪ
suppositionary
ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃənərɪ
traditionary
trəˈdɪʃənərɪ
transitionary
trænˈzɪʃənərɪ
tuitionary
tjʊˈɪʃənərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STATIONARY

station break
station church
station days
station house
station manager
station officer
station wagon
stational
stationarily
stationariness
stationary bicycle
stationary engine
stationary engineer
stationary orbit
stationary point
stationary wave
stationer
stationer´s
Stationers´ Company
stationery

WORDS THAT END LIKE STATIONARY

accretionary
cardiopulmonary
cautionary
confectionary
coronary
counter-revolutionary
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discretionary
evolutionary
exclusionary
expansionary
ordinary
post-Revolutionary
precautionary
pulmonary
reactionary
reversionary
revisionary
revolutionary
visionary

Synonyms and antonyms of stationary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STATIONARY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «stationary» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of stationary

Translation of «stationary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STATIONARY

Find out the translation of stationary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stationary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stationary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

静止不动的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

detenido
570 millions of speakers

English

stationary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्थिर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ثابتة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стационарный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

estacionário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিশ্চল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à l´arrêt
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pegun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

stillstehend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

静止している
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정지한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stasioner
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

văn phòng phẩm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிலையான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

थांबलेला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sabit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fermo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stacjonarne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стаціонарний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

staționar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στάσιμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stilstaande
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

stationär
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

stasjonær
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stationary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STATIONARY»

The term «stationary» is very widely used and occupies the 12.978 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STATIONARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «stationary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «stationary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stationary

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10 QUOTES WITH «STATIONARY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stationary.
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Ed Begley, Jr.
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Henry Charles Carey
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.
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James Freeman Clarke
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
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Philip K. Dick
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
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Emmett Kelly
I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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Ali Liebegott
When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.
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Wilhelm Ostwald
The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.
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Martin Lewis Perl
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STATIONARY»

Discover the use of stationary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stationary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Old Stationary Engines
This book describes the evolution of the first practical stationary engines and illustrates some of the many designs, with notes on their important features and information on the better-known manufacturers.
David W. Edgington, 2004
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An Introduction to the Theory of Stationary Random Functions
Although rigorous in its treatment, this is essentially an introduction, and the sole prerequisites are a rudimentary knowledge of probability and complex variable theory. 1962 edition.
A. M. Yaglom, Richard A. Silverman, 2004
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Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine
This is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in fifty years.
Richard L. Hills, 1993
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Machine Learning in Non-stationary Environments: ...
With this book, they aim to encourage future research in machine learning, statistics, and engineering that strives to create truly autonomous learning machines able to learn under non-stationarity.
Masashi Sugiyama, Motoaki Kawanabe, 2012
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Stationary Stochastic Processes: Theory and Applications
Features Presents and illustrates the fundamental correlation and spectral methods for stochastic processes and random fields Explains how the basic theory is used in special applications like detection theory and signal processing, spatial ...
Georg Lindgren, 2012
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Stationary Subdivision
This book presents a systematic development of the basic mathematical principles and concepts associated with stationary subdivision algorithms.
Alfred S. Cavaretta, Wolfgang Dahmen, Charles A. Micchelli
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Handbook of Differential Equations: Stationary Partial ...
This handbook is volume III in a series devoted to stationary partial differential quations. Similarly as volumes I and II, it is a collection of self contained state-of-the-art surveys written by well known experts in the field.
Michel Chipot, Pavol Quittner, 2006
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Stationary and Related Stochastic Processes: Sample Function ...
This graduate-level text offers a comprehensive account of the general theory of stationary processes, with special emphasis on the properties of sample functions.
Harald Cramér, M. Ross Leadbetter, 2013
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The Stationary Tower: Notes on a Course by W. Hugh Woodin
This book is suitable for a graduate course that assumes some familiarity with forcing, constructibility, and ultrapowers. It is also recommended for researchers interested in logic, set theory, and forcing.
Paul Bradley Larson
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Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks
Chapter coverage includes: Fiber–wireless networks: technologies, architectures, and future challenges Packet backhaul network Point-to-point microwave backhaul Fourth-generation broadband: paving the road to Gbit/s with copper Dynamic ...
Krzysztof Iniewski, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STATIONARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stationary is used in the context of the following news items.
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Global Stationary Oxygen Concentrators Market Is Expected To …
WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Stationary Oxygen Concentrators: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, ... «Medgadget.com, Jul 15»
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Eight people killed as bus dashes into stationary auto in Andra …
Visakhapatnam: Eight persons, including three women, inside a stationary auto were on Monday killed and four others injured after it was hit by a state transport ... «IBNLive, Jul 15»
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Lockheed's JAGM successfully hits two laser-designated stationary
Lockheed Martin's multi-mode joint air-to-ground missile (JAGM) has successfully engaged two laser-designated stationary targets during government-led flight ... «Army Technology, Jul 15»
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Stationary Cycles Market by Type, by End User - Global Forecast to …
The products segment is classified into recumbent stationary cycle, upright stationary ... The major end-users of the global stationary cycle market are vertical ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
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Chula Vista Senior Pumps Pedals To National Stationary Bike Record
A team of retired seniors at Fredericka Manor in Chula Vista is competing in a Tour de France of sorts. The competitors are riding stationary bikes for their health ... «KPBS, Jul 15»
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Nissan sees old Leaf batteries working for stationary energy
Nissan will start working with a Silicon Valley-based company to further explore creating a market in which old Leaf electric-vehicle batteries can be reused for ... «Autoblog, Jun 15»
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The Beauty of Power: Mesocyclone over South Dakota
Photo by Nicolaus Wegner, from the video. On June 1, 2015, photographer Nicolaus Wegner was in South Dakota and saw a rare sight: a stationary supercell. «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
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Stationary storage costs to remain high, despite predictions of $172 …
These prices will primarily benefit the electric vehicle (EV) industry, however, with the stationary storage market continuing to see significantly higher prices. «pv magazine, May 15»
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Jackson Family Wines Collaborates with Tesla Energy to Pilot …
A Tesla Energy stationary storage system at Kendall-Jackson's (Jackson Family Wines) winery in Napa Valley, California. (Photo: Business Wire) ... «Business Wire, Apr 15»
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5 reasons to see Stationary: A Recession-Era Musical
Stationary: A Recession-Era Musical. April 21 to May 2 | Historic Theatre at the Cultch. Tickets: from $19 at thecultch.com, and 604-251-1363. 1. Oozing talent. «Vancouver Sun, Apr 15»

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