Stationary
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Not to be confused with Stationery.
Stationary can mean:
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- Not moving (fixed in position, immobile, motionless, static, or at rest).
- Unchanging (for instance in measure, mode, condition, character).
- In statistics and probability: a stationary process.
- In mathematics: a stationary point.
- In mathematics: a stationary set.
- In physics: a time-invariant quantity, such as a constant position or temperature.
- In physics: a steady state physical process, such as a vibration at constant amplitude and frequency or a steady fluid flow.
The word or its spelling is sometimes confused with stationery, meaning paper or office supplies.
[edit] See also
- Stationary phase, a disambiguation page
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