adj not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
2. stationary ·adj not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
3. stationary ·adj appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
4. stationary ·noun one who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.