stagnate
High-tech equipment will allow technicians to monitor, clean, and circulate the water to prevent stagnation and maintain quality.
Water stagnation occurs when water stops flowing and can be a major environmental hazard.
When dairy products are eaten in excess, they tend to cause stagnation in the body.

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stagnation | Business English

stagnation
noun[ U ]
 ECONOMICSuk /stæɡˈneɪʃən/us
a state in which growth or development stops:
The Chancellor's policy was to expand into new markets in order to avoid economic stagnation.
Berlin's real-estate market finally recovered from a long period of stagnation.
price/salary stagnation

Examples of stagnation

stagnation
In terms of recreation, culture, education, and even rural industries, the period was characterised as much by development and change as by stagnation and decline.
In the oncoming flow, the stagnation streamline separates these two regions of the lighter fluid.
In our solution the vorticity is not singular, even at the stagnation point.
Most of the developing countries were experiencing deep economic problems such as slow growth, economic stagnation, and high inflation.
A stagnation streamline is attached normal to the wall a t these points which encloses the sphere.
Thus, the flow in the stagnation region was merely an image of the flow downstream of the screen.
The water was fed to the stagnation chamber through a perforated pipe located upstream of two turbulence-reducing screens.
Normally, the laser spike occurs around the first pinching time and near stagnation.
The first four in the table, pertaining mostly to state capture, all show either stagnation or deterioration.
The results are applied to the case of a prescribed stagnation point flow.
The regions along the x-axis at which the u- and v -components change signs correspond to the stagnation points on the shear layers.
The rates of per capita growth during the periods of mining stagnation are 0.12 (1729-44) and 0.03 (1753) per cent per year.
The integration from the back to the front stagnation point used data from the inner grid, and should be of high accuracy.
In this figure the angle is measured from the fore stagnation point.
This stagnation is blamed on the steady dissipation of the forces which transformed the eighteenth-century city.
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