Astatic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Unsteady; unstable.
  • adj. Physics Having no particular directional characteristics.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not static or stable; unsteady, unstable
  • adj. Of or pertaining to astasia
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Unstable; unsteady.
  • Hence In physical, having no tendency to take a definite (fixed) position; without directive power: used especially of a magnetic needle whose directive property has been neutralized.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not static or stable
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    changeful    changeable   
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