(a.) Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
(a.) Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
(a.) Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
(n.) One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) sn-Glycerol 3-phosphate was found to decrease the quasi-stationary concentration of Fru 2,6-P2.
(2) Although less growth occurred with limited glucose, M protein of high specific activity was produced with an actual increase in acid-extractable M protein during the stationary phase of growth.
(3) The mutant ribosomes prepared from the transition-phase cells have much lower activity (below 60%) for poly(U)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis than those in exponentially growing or resting stationary-phase cells.
(4) At the beginning of the stationary phase the activity of intracellular nuclease was relatively stable in both strains.
(5) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
(6) Both the formazans and tetrazolium salts were screened for their antiviral activity against the Ranikhet disease virus and vaccinia virus in a stationary culture of chorioallantoic membrane of chick embryo.
(7) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
(8) In the stationary group the bronchograms showed only a mild mucous reaction, and peripheral filling was generally good.
(9) No significant differences were found between the motion and stationary MSLT days.
(10) Three types of behavior of the compound eye of Daphnia magna are characterized: 'flick', a transient rotation elicited by a brief flash of light; 'fixation', a maintained eye orientation in response to a stationary light stimulus of long-duration; 'tracking', the smooth pursuit of a moving stimulus.
(11) We report here that dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO): suppresses radiation-induced transformation in vitro, even when DMSO treatments begin as late as 10 days post-irradiation (when cells are in the confluent, stationary phase of growth); inhibits the 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) enhancement of radiation-induced transformation in vitro; does not affect the expression of transformed cells as foci (when surrounded by non-transformed cells); and may be affecting radiation-induced transformation through its solvent properties (i.e.
(12) Likewise, 60 s incorporations show a large amount of bicarbonate fixed into aspartate (30.9%) in stationary phase cells over that of exponential phase (11.6%).
(13) In particular we focus on the case encountered in many tomographic applications in which the spatial response functions are approximately stationary with object depth.
(14) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
(15) The main pregnancy resolution was vaginal via; only 6.3% of the study group subjected cesarean section against 10.3% of the witness group and the most frecuent indication was stationary dilation (1 and 8 cases respectively).
(16) The Chinese hamster fibroblasts entered the stationary phase of growth after 5.5 days of cultivation.
(17) Regeneration of cells from protoplasts was monitored throughout the growth cycle and was most efficient when cells of either S. fradiae or S. griseofuscus were taken from the transition phase between the exponential and stationary growth phases.
(18) Bacillus megaterium, in which sporulation was blocked either by mutation or with netropsin, synthesizes during the stationary phase more exocellular proteinase than the sporulating culture.
(19) The search process first segregates the array into moving and stationary items, and then examines the moving group for the target form.
(20) This device has collecting cups which follow the movements of the floor of the mouth but which is kept stationary by a fixed platform on the occlusal surfaces of the teeth.
Unmoveable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Annette Ramelsberger of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, who has attended every trial day so far, told German broadcaster DLF that she had been struck in particular by how unmoved Zschäpe was by the accounts given by the parents of 21-year-old Halit Yozgat, the owner of an internet cafe who was gunned down in broad daylight in Kassell on 6 April 2006.
(2) A crucial difference from Unscom is that all the Unmovic staff will be paid for directly by the UN.
(3) They were unmoved by the fact that copies of the drives were lodged round the globe.
(4) He was unmoved by the cheering in the plenary hall for the agreement, saying: "They are thinking like politicians.
(5) While Cotto seemed unmoved by the several shots that pierced his guard, he was the one who began to slow first.
(6) Brough replied: “Yes I did.” Mal Brough unmoved by calls to resign over Peter Slipper furore Read more Brough had a different response when the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus , asked the same question during parliamentary question time on Wednesday: “Did you ask James Ashby to procure copies of Peter Slipper’s diary for you?” Brough told parliament: “No.” The 60 Minutes exchange is significant because extracts of AFP search warrants that have been read into the parliamentary record suggest the police are investigating whether Brough “counselled and procured” Ashby to access restricted data and disclose extracts, contrary to criminal law.
(7) At the end of the training, the group linked arms in front of the church and began chanting: “Let them stay.” Turnbull and Dutton unmoved by calls to spare 267 asylum seekers from deportation to Nauru Read more The largest crowd appeared to gather at St John’s cathedral in Brisbane, almost filling the church.
(8) The same official had failed to notice Mario Balotelli's lunge high into Alex Song's shin at the Emirates a week earlier but was convinced here despite his linesman being unmoved and Mata the only Chelsea player to celebrate.
(9) Aleppo was divided almost immediately into government- and rebel-controlled areas, along lines that have remained mostly static ever since: a stalemate unmoved by repeated and often ruthless attempts to dislodge the other side.
(10) The Southampton substitute Maya Yoshida appeared to bundle over Alberto Paloschi in the box but the referee, Jonathan Moss, was unmoved.
(11) Unmovic takes 0.8% of this fund to pay its staff and other costs.
(12) Moyes's decision to renew United's interest has so far left Evra unmoved, with the 32-year-old currently of the mind to stay at the club while monitoring the situation as it develops.
(13) It was a crystal-encrusted hand gesture to a fashion industry that remains unmoved by the label's current red carpet ranking.
(14) Untouched by a pleading letter from Vince Cable, the business secretary begging them to " make peace with the public ", the board was certainly unmoved by the Robin Hood and Action Aid anti-tax avoidance protesters outside.
(15) Practice of late in local producing houses has actually been to revive audience-demanded canonical work by employing Australians to rewrite the words, but The Australian is unmoved – singling out my own employer, Melbourne's Malthouse, as an "offender against the art of playwriting" with "ideological bias against text-based plays".
(16) Despite repeated promises to be more open, time after time the London Assembly has hit an unmovable wall when assessing TfL finances.
(17) Petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from UK signed by 95,000 Read more Trump toured the US television studios in unrepentant form, unmoved by the gale of criticism that followed his speech aboard an aircraft carrier on Monday evening.
(18) Between 1955 and 1958 he was minister of finance, then minister of defence, holding this post from 1959 to 1966 – unmoved and unmoveable – while prime ministers succeeded each other: Antonio Segni (1959), Fernando Tambroni (1960), Fanfani (1960-62), Giovanni Leone (1963) and Aldo Moro (1963-66).
(19) Second, when questions about issues are asked in direct relation to voting intentions, the gap between the NHS and other concerns is unmoved.
(20) The blow will be softened, however, by a weekly income of £500,000, comprised of salary, image rights and associated sponsorship, and the challenge of establishing the Beckham brand in a country that has thus far been largely unmoved by the rest of the world's favourite game.