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Stationariness

Sta′tion-a-ri-ness

(-ā̍-rĭ-nĕs)
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Noun.
The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.

Definition 2024


stationariness

stationariness

English

Noun

stationariness (uncountable)

  1. the state or quality of being stationary
    • 1920, William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays:
      The normal condition of every species on this planet is not progress but stationariness.
    • 1999 October 22, Gilles Laurent, “A Systems Perspective on Early Olfactory Coding”, in Science, volume 286, number 5440, DOI:10.1126/science.286.5440.723, pages 723-728:
      In olfaction, these features might be chemical species, chirality, concentration, location, stationariness, or rate of encounter.