not moving or not intended to be moved 不动的,静止的;稳定的,不可移动的 a car collided with a stationary vehicle. 一辆小汽车与一辆停放的车辆相撞。 ■(Astronomy)(of a planet) having no apparent motion in longitude (天文)(行星)经度无明显移动的 ■not changing in quantity or condition (数量,状况)稳定的,不变的 a stationary population. 数目稳定的人口。
stationariness noun 语源
late Middle English: from Latin stationarius (originally in the sense 'belonging to a military station'), from statio(n-) 'standing' (see station)
用法
The words stationary and stationery are often confused. Stationary is an adjective which means ‘not moving or not intended to be moved’, as in a car collided with a stationary vehiclewhereas stationery is a noun which means ‘writing and other office materials’, as in I wrote to my father on the hotel stationeryAround 5 per cent of the citations for stationary on the Oxford English Corpus are incorrect