"labile" meaning in English

See labile in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈleɪbaɪl/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-labile.wav Forms: more labile [comparative], most labile [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪbaɪl Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|lābilis||apt to slip, transient}} Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} labile (comparative more labile, superlative most labile)
  1. Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. Translations (liable to slip, err, fall or apostatize): лаби́лен (labílen) (Bulgarian), неустойчи́в (neustojčív) (Bulgarian), labilní (Czech), labiili (Finnish), labil (German), labilny (Polish), làbbili (Sicilian), lábil (Spanish), labil (Swedish)
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  2. Apt or likely to change. Synonyms: unstable
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  3. (chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed). Translations (kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved): лаби́лен (labílen) (Bulgarian), làbil (Catalan), labilní (Czech), labiili (Finnish), labile (French), labile (Italian), làbbili (Sicilian), lábil (Spanish)
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  4. (linguistics, of a verb) 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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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: lability, lapse
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        "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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      "word": "labiili"
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      "word": "lábil"
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      "sense": "kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved",
      "word": "лаби́лен"
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      "sense": "kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved",
      "word": "labilní"
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      "sense": "kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved",
      "word": "labiili"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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}

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