Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonmoving \nonmoving\ adj. Not moving. Opposite of moving. [Narrower terms: at rest, inactive, motionless, static, still; becalmed ; {dead(prenominal), stagnant, standing(prenominal), still; frozen(predicate), rooted(predicate), stock-still ; {inert ; {sitting ; {slack ; {stationary ; {immobile, unmoving] Also See: immobile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "having no apparent motion" (in reference to planets), from Middle French stationnaire "motionless" and directly from Latin stationarius, from the stem of statio "a standing, post, job, position" (see station (n.)). Meaning "unmovable" is from 1620s. In classical Latin, stationarius is recorded only in the sense "of a military station;" the word for "stationary, steady" being statarius.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not moving. 2 incapable of being moved 3 unchanging n. 1 One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion. 2 (misspelling of stationery English)
WordNet
adj. standing still; "the car remained stationary with the engine running"
not capable of being moved; "stationary machinery"
Wikipedia
In addition to its common meaning, stationary may have the following specialized scientific meanings:
Usage examples of "stationary".
Caledonia have remained stationary with our banns and our traditions, they have advanced in every direction.
It was a defective barometer, and had no hand but the stationary brass pointer, but I did not know that until afterward.
His mouth works up syllables, silently, struggling to hold that stationary morphogenesis he has at last found a name for.
Jack felt as if the night itself was spinning, and he and Quain were the only stationary points.
Harper and Quig, sitting here in the biggest, most attractive stationary target the rogue had, if the Goss kids were right about their sister.
Quite often when a hurricane reaches the northern limits of its latitude and then is caught up by the westerlies it can remain stationary at its point of recurvature for twelve or twenty-four hours-which would have meant that you would have had to sail through it.
We conclude that in comparison to a stationary clock, the rate of ticking of the sliding clock becomes slower and slower as it moves faster and faster.
Even with the compromised resolution of the image, Taris could see that the space surrounding the station, an area normally cluttered with stationary vessels, was empty.
The short, undistorted echoes from one to five seconds would result from radio waves entering small, stationary or slow-moving clouds.
The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the north-east, the sails were hoisted, and the Henrietta ploughed across the waves like a real trans-Atlantic steamer.
She sat in place, stationary and mute, her mind a hopeless turmoil of unsortable forms, until the car stopped moving and they were staring at one another in the parking lot of the mall.
The one prime postulate of these Oriental faiths the ground principle, never to be questioned any more than the central and stationary position of the earth in the Ptolemaic system is that all beings below the Infinite One are confined in the circle of existence, the whirl of births and deaths, by the consequences of their virtues and vices.
Her senses told her that she was stationary while Detroit and the rest of South Spindle were turning along with the background of stars, but she knew that in reality it was she and the part of Janus that lay north of the Spin Decoupler that were turning at a little under one revolution every minute.
When we came up to them in the last of the twilight, the three Doos were stationary beside a gap in the ridge maybe forty feet long.
In the East he fixed a line of camps from Egypt to the Persian dominions, and for every camp, he instituted an adequate number of stationary troops, commanded by their respective officers, and supplied with every kind of arms, from the new arsenals which he had formed at Antioch, Emesa, and Damascus.