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n. The state or quality of being stable, especially:

n. Resistance to change, deterioration, or displacement.

n. Constancy of character or purpose; steadfastness.

n. Reliability; dependability.

n. The ability of an object, such as a ship or aircraft, to maintain equilibrium or resume its original, upright position after displacement, as by the sea or strong winds.

n. Roman Catholic Church A vow committing a Benedictine monk to one monastery for life.

n. The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change

n. The tendency to recover from perturbations

n. The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; stableness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown

n. Steadiness or firmness of character; firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to fickleness, irresolution, or inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness.

n. Fixedness; -- as opposed to fluidity.

n. The state or property of being stable or firm; strength to stand and resist overthrow or change; stableness; firmness: as, the stability of a building, of a government, or of a system.

n. Steadiness or firmness, as of purpose or resolution; fixity of character; steadfastness: the opposite of fickleness and inconstancy.

n. Fixedness, as opposed to fluidity.

n. Continuance in the same state; permanence; specifically, an additional or fourth vow of continuance in the same profession, and residence for life in the same monastery, imposed upon monks by the Benedictine rule.

n. That character of equilibrium, or of a body in equilibrium, in virtue of which, if the position is disturbed, it tends to be restored.

n. Synonyms and

n. Immobility, permanence. See stable.

n. Molecular stability, permanence of condition as regards the arrangement of the molecules: said of metals which, by repeated annealing, have been brought into a state in which further changes of dimensions or structure do not occur.

n. the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

n. a stable order (especially of society)

n. the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast

"Thus the prominent foreign policy analyst James Chace was properly using the term "stability" in its technical sense when he explained that in order to achieve "stability" in Chile it was necessary to "destabilize" the country by overthrowing the elected government of Salvador Allende and installing the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet."

order    steadiness    firmness   

curve of stability    cross-curves of stability    secular stability    kinetic stability    moment of stability    statical stability    range of stability    dynamical stability   

stableness    steadiness    firmness    immovability    constancy    steadfastness    fixedness   

accessibility    advisability    availability    believability    collectibility    comparability    convertibility    credibility    culpability    deniability   

efficiency    integrity    flexibility    independence    strength    prosperity    health    sensitivity    consistency    ability