stationary point

British  

noun

1. a point on a curve at which the tangent is either horizontal or vertical, such as a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection

2. astronomy a point in the apparent path of a planet when it reverses direction

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stationary point

Mooring lines connect a vessel to a stationary point on the shore to prevent it from moving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

After a while they reach another stationary point and resume prograde motion again.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 14, 2021

We now use the divergence theorem to justify the special case of this law in which the electrostatic field is generated by a stationary point charge at the origin.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

Both of them make religion a stationary point, and not a motive of principle, forever progressing to perfection.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

In a short time steam will issue from G; and the mercury in the thermometer, kept carefully immersed, will rise rapidly until it attains a stationary point, which is the boiling temperature.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry