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Stationary vs Nomadic - What's the difference?

stationary | nomadic |

As adjectives the difference between stationary and nomadic

is that stationary is not moving while nomadic is of, or relating to nomads.

As a noun stationary

is one who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.

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

    nomadic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nomadick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to nomads.
  • Leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; peripatetic, itinerant.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01
    • , author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore , title=Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight , volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48 , magazine= citation , passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.}}

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