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 |
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Broader | constancy, stability | The quality of being enduring and free from change or variation |
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Spanish | metaestabilidad |
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Catalan | metaestabilidad, metaestabilitat |
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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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