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stationary

adjective as in not moving; fixed

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In some cases, we found photosynthetic bacteria that were literally frozen in the ice — totally stationary and yet they could still carry out photosynthesis.

Still, auditors chastised the agency for doing little to curb emissions from mobile sources like cars, while acknowledging its primary role is to regulate “stationary sources” coming from buildings and shipyards.

The agency’s primary role is to regulate “stationary sources” of air pollution, basically any polluter that doesn’t move like a shipyard, Costco or even a school.

Participants will be on stationary bikes in their homes rather than real bikes on the road, and there are some other key differences between the virtual Tour and the real thing.

Some other stationary spots, called “anti-nodes,” also develop.

“I usually see people head to the stationary bikes,” Steinbrick says.

Senhor José remains stationary, but this lengthy series of clauses propels the reader along an unmarked path.

Let me tell you, you look pretty silly nearly whiffing a stationary ball.

Five minutes later, Grace bounds down the stationary escalator, clutching a bacon cheeseburger and a Coke.

Aristotle saw a universe with a stationary earth at the center and Galileo saw a universe with the earth in motion about the sun.

The trains were pulled up the incline at the Lickey by powerful stationary engines.

The cross-head, side rods, and boiler were very similar to the Welsh stationary engines of that date.

To the great amazement of the Moro chiefs, the waggons suddenly became stationary, whilst the released horses galloped on ahead!

There is a tolerable theatre, but the dramatic corps are not stationary.

Of the Somali tribes the Herti dwell near the coast and are more or less stationary.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stationary, such as: immobile, motionless, parked, stagnant, static, and anchored.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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