| NOUN | attribute | metastability | the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed |
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| Meaning | The quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed. | |
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| Category | physics, natural philosophy | The science of matter and energy and their interactions |
| Broader | constancy, stability | The quality of being enduring and free from change or variation |
| Spanish | metaestabilidad | |
| Catalan | metaestabilidad, metaestabilitat | |
| Adjectives | metastable | (of physical systems) continuing in its present state of equilibrium unless sufficiently disturbed to pass to a more stable state of equilibrium |
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