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Definition of Instability
1. Noun. An unstable order.
2. Noun. Unreliability attributable to being unstable.
3. Noun. A lack of balance or state of disequilibrium. "A hormonal imbalance"
4. Noun. The quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute.
Generic synonyms: Unsteadiness
Specialized synonyms: Shakiness
Antonyms: Stability, Stableness
Derivative terms: Unstable, Unstable, Unstable, Unstable, Unstable
Definition of Instability
1. n. The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.
Definition of Instability
1. Noun. The quality of being unstable. ¹
2. Noun. (context: physics countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Instability
1. [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Instability
1. The quality or state of being unstable. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instability
Literary usage of Instability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The maximum value of kinematic viscosity v which will lead to a phase change
instability versus the magnitude of the negative temperature gradient for the ..."
2. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1902)
"(1) " On the Instability of Jets," Math. Soe. Proc. November 187*. ... (3) " On
the Instability of a Cylinder of Viscous Liquid under Capillary Force," fupm ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1862)
"—Instability of the administration prejudicial to the art of government. ...
The instability of the administration has penetrated into the habits of the ..."
4. Unwise Laws: A Consideration of the Operations of a Protective Tariff Upon by Lewis Harvie Blair (1886)
"ONE may ask, Why charge protection with the sin of instability ? Is not instability,
he may further ask, stamped upon every thing ? ..."
5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"Instability OF THE ADMINISTRATION IN THE UNITED STATES In America the public acts
of a community frequently leave fewer traces than the occurrences of a ..."
6. A Treatise on Hydrodynamics: With Numerous Examples by Alfred Barnard Basset (1888)
"Any increase in the velocity caused the point at which instability commenced, to
approach this extremity, but Reynolds did not succeed in obtaining a ..."
7. Conflict and Growth in Africa by Jean-Paul Azam, Christian Morrisson, Sophie Chauvin, Sandrine Rospabé (1999)
"Niger: Political Instability and Economic Stagnation Niger shares many of the
natural handicaps of Burkina Faso and Mali, as well as the same colonial ..."
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