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Stationary vs Immobilization - What's the difference?

stationary | immobilization |

As nouns the difference between stationary and immobilization

is that stationary is one who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion while immobilization is the act or process of preventing a thing from moving.

As an adjective stationary

is not moving.

stationary

English

Adjective

(wikipedia stationary) (en adjective)
  • Not moving.
    • For a few moments, the train remained stationary , before lurching forward along the track.
  • incapable of being moved
  • unchanging

    • Synonyms

    * (not moving) fixed, immobile, motionless, still, stock-still, unmoving * (incapable of being moved) immobile, unmoveable * (unchanging) changeless, constant, immutable, unchanging

    Antonyms

    * (not moving) in motion, moving, on the move * (incapable of being moved) mobile, moveable * (unchanging) changing, mutable, variable

    Noun

    (stationaries)
  • One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
    • (Holland)

    • See also

    * stationary point

    immobilization

    English

    Alternative forms

    * immobilisation

    Noun

    (wikipedia immobilization)
  • The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
    • The broken bones were able to heal thanks to the immobilization of her leg in a cast.
  • (soil science) The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.