Stationary

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.