"unistable" meaning in English

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          "text": "24. Are there unistable polyhedra with less than 19 faces? / A unistable polyhedron is one which when made of material of uniform density, will rest in stable equilibrium on only one of its faces.",
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          "ref": "1979, IEEE Computer Society, Exploding Technology, Responsible Growth: Digest of Papers, pages 158, 159",
          "text": "There are two basic types of amorphous materials—the unistable and the bistable. The unistable material is one in which there are no structural changes. […] The mechanisms for carrier control in the unistable materials are electronic.",
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        "(mathematics, of a polyhedron) stable when resting on one of its faces"
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