labile

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Apt or likely to change.
Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.

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Borrowed from Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”).

unstable

lability lapse

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