semistationary
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Staying on one place or form, although capable of change on occasion.
Example Sentences
- "Where semistationary shovels do the loading, some sort of vehicle must haul the rock either to the next part of the materials-handling system, located near the stoping area, or all the way to the shaft."
- "In the United States, the process of dismembering a tree or stem at a stationary or semistationary conversion yard to obtain a maximum product value is termed merchandizing,^([sic]) and the system of machines used for this purpose is called a tree or stem merchandizer.^([sic])"
- "They now have several satellites located in semistationary orbits at strategic locations around the world instead of one satellite circulating the globe."
- "These solutions can in turn estimate so called volatility modulated Volterra (VMV) processes and L\'{e}vy semistationary (LSS) processes, which is a class of processes that have been employed to model turbulence, tumor growth and electricity forward and spot prices."
Etymology
From semi- + stationary.