stationariness (stash on a rines)

Stationary character or quality; fixity: as, the station arine of the barometer; the stationarine of rents. J. S. Mill, On Liberty, iii. stationary (sta's hon-a-ri), a. and n. stationnaire = Sp. Pg. est a cion a rio = It. stazio nario, equinoctial. 2. Remaining in the same condition or state; making no progre ; without change; with neither increase nor decrease of symptoms, intensity, etc.: as, a stationary temperature. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary . Macaulay , Bacon. Stationary air, the amount of air which remains constantly in the lungs in ordinary respiration. - Stationary contact, diseases, engine. See the nouns. - Stationary motion, such a motion of a system that no particle continually departs further and further from its original position, nor does its velocity continually increase or diminish. Clausius. - Stationary point, on a curve, a point where the point generating the curve is stationary and turns back; acusp; a binode whose two tangents coincide. Stationary tangent of a curve, a tangent where the moving tangent generating the curve is stationary and turns back; an inflection. - Stationary tangent plane of a surface, a tangent plane which has stationary contact with the surface. II. n.; pl. stationaries (-riz). 1. A person or thing which remains or continues in the same place or condition; specifically, one of a force of permanent or stationary troops. The stationaries are mine already. So are the soldiery all the way up the Nile. Kingsley , Hypatia, xx. Then they are stationaries in their houses, which be in the middle points of the latitudes, which they call eclipticks. Holland , tr. of Pliny, ii. 16. 2. One who wishes to stay as or where he is; one who opposes or resists progre ; an extreme conservatist. Divided between the party of movement and that of resistance - the progre ives and the stationaries . Huc, Travels (trans. 1852), II. 129.