The phrase "stationary phase" refers to a period of little or no movement or change. It can describe a state where things stay still or stable, not progressing or advancing. Full definition
Two other types were isolated from two animals which had received a low dose stationary phase aerosol infection. (jcvi.org)
The selected stationary phases fully leverage the separation power of sub-2-µm particle technology, delivering the efficiency and selectivity required for complex separations such as discovery of low - abundance species, peptide mapping, protein identification, and biomarker discovery. (sciencemag.org)
Related research (Pereira HJ, et al., 2012) used two different lines of evidence to explain the increase in the ratio of anteiso — to iso - branched alkenes that was observed during the transition from early to late stationary phase in M. luteus: structural studies of a key enzyme involved in fatty acid biosynthesis in M. luteus (FabH, or ß - ketoacyl - ACP synthase III) and transcriptional (whole - genome microarray) studies of M. luteus during different growth phases. (jbei.org)