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stability

UK/stəˈbɪlɪti/US/stəˈbɪlɪti/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,334 of 15,258leans written

Stability is the quality of staying steady and not changing suddenly. Political stability, financial stability, restore stability.

In engineering, stability means a system returns to its position after a push, which is the precise sense behind all the loose ones. Political stability is not the same as being good — a repressive state can have a great deal of stability indeed.

Definitions of stability

  1. 1nounstabilityThe quality of staying steady and not changing suddenly.C1

    “After years of war, people just wanted peace and stability.”

stability is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin stabilitas comes from stabilis, firm, from stare, to stand. Stable and establish are relatives.

  1. Old French

    stabilité

  2. Middle English

    stabletee

  3. English, today

    stability

Built from

  • stabilitas · Latin — firmness, steadfastness
  • stabilis · Latin — steadfast, firm

From Middle English stabletee, stabilite, from Old French stabilité, from Latin - root of stabilitas (“firmness, steadfastness”), from stabilis (“steadfast, firm”). Displaced native staþolfæstnes.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

stability in the wild

  • Dihedral effect is a critical factor in the stability of an aircraft about the roll axis (the spiral mode).

    Dihedral (aeronautics)

  • The most important type is that concerning the stability of solutions near to a point of equilibrium.

    Lyapunov stability

  • Input-to-state stability (ISS) applies Lyapunov notions to systems with inputs.

    Lyapunov stability

  • In Europe the electronic stability program had saved an estimated 15,000 lives as of 2020.

    Electronic stability control

  • In 1997, Grimm and Wissel made an inventory of 167 definitions used in the literature and found 70 different stability concepts.

    Ecological stability

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the stabilis family

establishstability

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