immobility

immobile | American Dictionary

immobile
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪˈmoʊ·bəl/
not moving, or not able to move or be moved:
He is in a cast to keep his spine immobile.

immobilize

verb[ T ]us/ɪˈmoʊ·bəˌlɑɪz/
The brace immobilized my elbow while the injury healed.

Examples of immobile

immobile
Geochemical discrimination of different magma series and their differentiation products using immobile elements.
It was not only an immobile population : it was also an elderly one.
The bar suddenly yields at the points where the weights rest while only its extremities remain immobile.
As the dust particles are assumed to be very heavy, we can consider them as immobile.
The resulting picture is of an intellectual histoire immobile persisting into the mid-seventeenth century.
This portion is assumed to be immobile across sectors.
The percentage of cytotoxicity was expressed by considering the number of immobile or dead parasites within the experimental period.
And both were unsuccessful because the existing authorities were repressive, politically immobile, and irresponsive to public demands.
The latter are supposed to be immobile, since we are considering surface wave phenomena on time scales much shorter than the nanoparticle plasma period.
This presents a surface consisting of densely packed, immobile particles of angular shape, in the size range 100-200 pm.
In all these theoretical investigations, the ions were treated as an immobile charge-neutralizing background.
Blebbing cells were also observed, but these were mainly immobile.
An immobile ion approximation was assumed in this paper in contrast to our model.
We finally note here that if surfactants are present, the interface will be tangentially immobile independently of the viscosity ratio.
I assume as well that the involuntarily mobile will tend to be worse off than the involuntarily immobile.
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