1. (a.) Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed\.

2. (a.) Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.

3. (a.) Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.

4. (n.) One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.

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