"unsteadiness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: unsteadinesses [plural]
Etymology: From unsteady + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|unsteady|ness}} unsteady + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} unsteadiness (countable and uncountable, plural unsteadinesses)
  1. The quality of being unsteady. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the state of being unsteady): epävakaus (Finnish), instabilitas [feminine] (Latin), chwiejność [feminine] (Polish), niestałość [feminine] (Polish), zmienność [feminine] (Polish), неусто́йчивость (neustójčivostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1942 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: A Rebuilt Brighton 0-4-2 Tank”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:",
          "text": "The Marsh rebuilding, with the higher-pitched and larger boiler and new standard boiler mountings, completely altered the appearance of the engine, which in its last guise was a very handsome machine; but unsteadiness in running at speeds over 50 m.p.h. resulted in no further such conversions being made.",
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          "sense": "the state of being unsteady",
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    },
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    }
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}

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