noun
definition
One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
adjective
definition
Not moving.
example
The train remained stationary for a few moments, before lurching forward along the track.
definition
Incapable of being moved
definition
Unchanging
Examples of stationary in a Sentence
If there's a stationary point you could tie on to, all the better.
The re-export trade is stationary and extremely small.
In the Venetian districts the farmers often have small stationary flocks.
But these points are not stationary.
The clouds remained almost stationary for about 40 minutes.
The stationary wave method regards the vibration in the pipe as due to a series of waves travelling to the end and being there reflected back down the pipe.
Stationary bikes provide a convenient workout.
Stationary scouts shifted only when necessary.
You can invest in a stationary bike or treadmill.
An engine plane is an inclined road, up which loaded cars are hauled by a stationary engine and rope, the empty cars running down by gravity, dragging the rope after them.
The rural population is practically stationary.
When choosing a bike, first decide whether you want a stationary cycle or a traditional bicycle.
Recumbent bikes provide a stable, stationary platform for exercise.
The types and quality of stationary bikes vary.
Treadmills, stationary bikes, and elliptical machines are all popular choices.
Exercise bikes are stationary bikes that enable you to pedal against resistance in the comfort of your own home.
These bikes transform quickly into stationary rowers, offering you both upper and lower body toning in one, small machine.
Most people choosing a stationary bike are using it for cardiovascular exercise, so the type of stationary cycle should be based largely on personal preference.
If you're normally a group exercise or treadmill type of exerciser, broaden your horizon and try out the stationary exercise bikes the next time you hit the gym.
When using a stationary exercise bike, you need to make sure you make appropriate adjustments to the seat so that the bike fits your frame.
When it comes to cycling, all of the stationary bike options will essentially work the same muscle groups, so the choice becomes a personal preference.
The modern version is basically like the standard stationary bike with movable arms.
Similarly, if you're working out on a stationary bike, choose a program or a routine that forces you to work harder for short periods of time with intermittent rest.
But how good of a workout do stationary bikes really provide?
This, the Chimen valley, contains in places a good deal of drift-sand, which however is stationary in the mass and heaped up along the northern foot of the Chimen-tagh.
Not far from the Kum-kol lakes there is a drift-sand area, though the dunes are stationary.
Because your arms as well as your legs work during rowing, you burn more on this machine than you would a stationary bike for the same amount of time.
Isometrics muscle exercises involve a static, or fixed-position exercise where the muscle and joint remain stationary during performance.
A 180-pound person will burn approximately 560 calories in 45 minutes of elliptical work, more calories than the same amount of time spent moderately cycling on a stationary bike.
By incorporating activities that increase intensity, and assuring that you also have a muscle building and flexibility component to your exercise routine, you can use a stationary bike as a beneficial part of your overall fitness program.
Besides this it was important only to consider whether the disease was acute or chronic, whether it was increasing, declining or stationary.
The Lyrids also vary in the position of their radiant, but the Orionids form a stationary position from about the 9th to the 24th of October.
The white population is not only far larger but more cosmopolitan, less stationary and more dependent on a single industry; it has few links with the past, and both city and citizens bear the marks of youth.
They move actively about for a few days and then, having selected a convenient place on the young roots, insert their proboscis and become stationary.
For the superposition of these trains will give a stationary wave between A H A (16) Y which is an equation characteristic of simple harmonic motion.
As a preliminary to the investigation of the modes of vibration of certain sources of sound we shall consider the formation of " stationary waves."
By similar methods, a circular plate may be made to exhibit nodal lines dividing the surface by diametral lines into four or a greater, but always even, number of sectors, an odd number being incompatible with the general law of stationary waves that the parts of a body adjoining a nodal line on either side must always vibrate oppositely to each other.
Another powerful reason for taking the aether to be stationary is afforded by the character of the equations of electrodynamics; they are all of linear type, and superposition of effects is possible.
Again want of support checked the Federals and the fight became stationary, both sides losing many men.
Some attention is given to the breeding of goats because of the local demand for their skins, but the industry is apparently stationary.
The lead production of the Missouri mines had for some years been nearly stationary, or had declined slightly from its former importance; while that of the upper Mississippi region, which in the years just previous to 1850 had risen to from 20,000 to 25,000 tons a year, was declining, having in 1850 sunk to less than 18,000 tons.
During1834-1846the royalty was 6 cents, and between 1846 and 1898 it remained stationary at one cent.
If the bearer be stationary, rain-drops will traverse the tube without touching its sides; if, however, the person be walking, the tube must be inclined at an angle varying as his velocity in order that the rain may traverse the tube centrally.
If the observer be stationary at B, the star will appear in the direction BS; if, however, he traverses the distance BA in the same time as light passes from the star to his eye, the star will A B appear in the direction AS.
Belopolsky and Prince Galitzin, who substituted for the source an image formed of a stationary object in a rapidly moving mirror.
The latter was built with ten inclined planes, five on each side of the summit at Blair's Gap and cars were drawn up these by stationary engines.
If it were not for leakage in various ways, the electrification would go on everywhere increasing, but in practice a stationary state is soon attained.
The motion of the rod consequent to a motion of the case is modified by the projecting axle of the stationary mass, and after much magnification is recorded on a sheet of smoked paper.
Wiechert has also constructed a seismometer on the same principle, but in which the stationary mass is smaller, being adjustable between 80 and 200 kilos (180 and 440 lb).
A more popular Strassburg instrument has a stationary mass of 25 kilos.