"instability" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-instability.wav Forms: instabilities [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French instabilité, from Latin instabilitas. Morphologically in- + stability. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|instabilité}} Middle French instabilité, {{uder|en|la|instabilitas}} Latin instabilitas, {{prefix|en|in|stability}} in- + stability Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} instability (countable and uncountable, plural instabilities)
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being unstable. Tags: uncountable Translations (quality of being unstable): ἀκαταστασία (akatastasía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), inestabilidá [feminine] (Asturian), sabitsizlik (Azerbaijani), нестабилност (nestabilnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), inestabilitat [feminine] (Catalan), 不穩定 (Chinese Mandarin), 不稳定 (bù wěndìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 不穩定性 (Chinese Mandarin), 不稳定性 (bù wěndìng xìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 不穩固 (Chinese Mandarin), 不稳固 (bù wěngù) (Chinese Mandarin), 不穩固性 (Chinese Mandarin), 不稳固性 (bù wěngù xìng) (Chinese Mandarin), instabiliteit [feminine] (Dutch), epävakaus (Finnish), instabilité [feminine] (French), inestabilidade [feminine] (Galician), Instabilität [feminine] (German), éagobhsaíocht [feminine] (Irish), instabilità [feminine] (Italian), dissesto [masculine] (Italian), instabilitas [feminine] (Latin), ketidakstabilan (Malay), ustabilitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ustabilitet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ناپایداری (nâpâydâri) (Persian), niestabilność [feminine] (Polish), instabilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), нестаби́льность (nestabílʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), неусто́йчивость (neustójčivostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), непро́чность (nepróčnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), непостоя́нство (nepostojánstvo) [neuter] (Russian), зы́бкость (zýbkostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), неуравнове́шенность (neuravnovéšennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), inestabilidad [feminine] (Spanish), нопойдорӣ (nopoydori) (Tajik), нестабі́льність (nestabílʹnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), несті́йкість (nestíjkistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-instability-en-noun-sCxnv3ok Categories (other): English terms prefixed with in-, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 56 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'quality of being unstable': 94 6
  2. (physics, countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Physics Translations (physical state): ἀκαταστασία (akatastasía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), нестабилност (nestabilnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 不穩定 (Chinese Mandarin), 不稳定 (bù wěndìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 不穩定性 (Chinese Mandarin), 不稳定性 (bù wěndìng xìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 不穩固 (Chinese Mandarin), 不稳固 (bù wěngù) (Chinese Mandarin), 不穩固性 (Chinese Mandarin), 不稳固性 (bù wěngù xìng) (Chinese Mandarin), instabiliteit [feminine] (Dutch), epätasapaino (Finnish), Instabilität [feminine] (German), ketidakstabilan (Malay), неусто́йчивость (neustójčivostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), непро́чность (nepróčnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), inestabilidad [feminine] (Spanish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: volatility Derived forms: diocotron instability, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, sea of instability, Turing instability Related terms: instable [adjective], stability [noun], disequilibrium

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