| a. | 1. | Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. | |||||||||
| 2. | Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary. | ||||||||||
| 3. | Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
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| n. | 1. | One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion. | |||||||||
| Adj. | 1. | stationary - standing still; "the car remained stationary with the engine running" |
| 2. | stationary - not capable of being moved; "stationary machinery" |
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