Stationary Phase

The term stationary phase may refer to

  • Stationary phase (biology), a phase in bacterial growth
  • Stationary phase (chemistry), a medium used in chromatography
  • Stationary phase approximation in the evaluation of integrals in mathematics

Famous quotes containing the words stationary and/or phase:

    It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)