English Explanatory Dictionary

instability

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality of being unstable.
  2. A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

instability instabilities

Etymology

From Middle French instabilité, from Latin instabilitas. Morphologically in- + stability.

Synonyms

unstability unstableness volatility

Related words

instable stability disequilibrium

Derived words

diocotron instability immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies syndrome microinstability photoinstability Rayleigh-Taylor instability sea of instability Turing instability
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