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nounstationariness (uncountable)
- uncountablethe state or quality of being stationary
The normal condition of every species on this planet is not progress but stationariness.
1920, William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays1 more example
In olfaction, these features might be chemical species, chirality, concentration, location, stationariness, or rate of encounter.
1999 October 22, Gilles Laurent, “A Systems Perspective on Early Olfactory Coding”, in Science, volume 286, number 5440, →DOI, pages 723–728
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