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Stationary vs Stationarity - What's the difference?

stationary | stationarity |

As nouns the difference between stationary and stationarity

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 stationarity is the condition of being stationary.

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

    stationarity

    English

    Noun

  • The condition of being stationary
  • (mathematics) The condition of a series in which the value at all points is the same; the stationary value itself