stationariness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

stationary +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

stationariness (uncountable)

  1. the state or quality of being stationary
    • 1920, William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays[1]:
      The normal condition of every species on this planet is not progress but stationariness.
    • 1999 October 22, Gilles Laurent, “A Systems Perspective on Early Olfactory Coding”, in Science[2], volume 286, number 5440, →DOI, pages 723–728:
      In olfaction, these features might be chemical species, chirality, concentration, location, stationariness, or rate of encounter.