Stationary
The adjective stationary (from the Latin statio 'standing still') refers to:
- Accommodation in a hospital or nursing home (as opposed to outpatient treatment), see inpatient stay
- Faithful animals (as opposed to migrating / migrating species ), see stationary species
- a time-independent state, see equilibrium (systems theory) # steady state
- in quantum mechanics see steady state
- a process that is not at rest but is independent of time, see stationary process
- more generally a process that retains certain invariants over time, see stationary stochastic process
- a flow with a constant velocity field, see stationary flow
- Sequences whose terms all match from a certain term, see stationary sequence
- Quantities that are large in a sense, see Club Quantity #The club filter
- a non-growing economy, see stationary economy
- the sale of goods from a fixed location, see stationary trade
Stationary (as a noun) stands for:
- Station ship , a warship stationed overseas for the Imperial Navy (1872–1918)
See also:
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with stationary
Wiktionary: stationary - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
