stationary position

collocation in English

meaningsofstationaryandposition

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stationary
adjective
uk
/ˈsteɪ.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˈsteɪ.ʃə.ner.i/
not moving, or ...
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position
noun
uk
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition ofstationaryandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The vertical axis represents time delay and the horizontal axis shows adjacent radar data while the sensor is held in astationaryposition.
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The decrease, or thestationarypositionin the total, has been largely owing to the fall in the value of securities.
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What is needed is a longer time at astationaryposition.
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Mining, railways, shipping, manufactures, and all rival industries, are continually increasing in this country, whilst agriculture barely retains itsstationaryposition.
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In every telephone service either you have a percentage of increase, or you have astationarypositionin regard to increase.
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It is an offence to trade in a designated street without a licence or to trade in any other street from astationaryposition.
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Does he further agree that there seem to be fewer police cars in evidence at the side of motorways in astationaryposition?
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That suggests astationaryposition, "kept".
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The fact is that anyone who simply sets up a pitch, or conducts business from astationaryposition, in a designated street, is likely to be engaging in unlicensed trading.
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When active operations are going on and communications have to be built up from behind, they take much longer than if you have a more or lessstationaryposition.
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This is because taking a morestationarypositionon the blueline rewards pure accuracy and patience, rather than the adept hand-eye coordination attributed to forwards.
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Catch up requires more strength for swimming because the hand is beginning the pull from astationarypositionrather than a dynamic one.
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Performers also perform balancing skills with the wheel in astationaryposition.
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Firing a marble meant that a player had to flick his marble from astationarypositionof his hand.
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A better alternative is for the phantom pair to be allocated astationaryposition.
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They should be extremely agile, have good speed and a powerful vertical jump from astationarypositionin rough and often heavily covered ground.
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Furthermore, pitchers must begin their throw from astationaryposition, while bowlers may run up to their delivery.
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Some of these tricks are done in astationaryposition, unlike many other skateboarding tricks.
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A laser start (from astationaryposition) is more accurate for measuring pure speed as it does not register a runner's reaction time.
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