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stability

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change 2 The tendency to recover from perturbations

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stability , also known as algorithmic stability , is a notion in computational learning theory of how a machine learning algorithm is perturbed by small changes to its inputs. A stable learning algorithm is one for which the prediction does not change much ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "firmness of resolve, mental equilibrium" (of persons), from Old French stablete , establete "firmness, solidity, stability; durability, constancy" (Modern French stabilité ), from Latin stabilitatem (nominative stabilitas ) "a standing fast, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stability \Sta*bil"i*ty\ (st[.a]*b[i^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. stabilitas; cf. F. stabilit['e]. See Stable , a.] The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; stableness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, ...

Usage examples of stability.

Middle Ages a measure of stability had been achieved between the coinages of Christendom and the Islamic world, one producing silver, the other gold.

Sorrow closes the lot of such aweless, unbridled madness: stability is for the calmly reverent life, knitting whole houses in sweet domestic harmony.

I will content myself with observing that if Madame de Maintenon conceived the first idea of it, it is the great benefactions of the monarch and the profound recognition of the nobility which have given stability and renown to this house.

And big as these shops were, they were growing bigger, spreading over a third block, where two new structures were mushrooming to completion in some hasty cement process of a stability not over-reassuring.

They were a source of what Peter Berger calls nihilation, which, as I view it, is any threat to the cultural translation process of generating meaning and its correlative form of social integration and stability.

Republic might have been given greater stability had some of the ideas of Professor Hugo Preuss, the principal drafter of the constitution, not been rejected.

Darfur, when it can at last be written, will therefore reproduce the same varying process of steady unification, institutional stability, and dynastic warfare that appears elsewhere across the Sudan from the Nile to the Atlantic.

I was studying the eigenvalue spectrum of the Taylor-Goldstein equation, trying to develop a new methodology for examining the stability of a particular class of fluid flows.

In all the great questions which have agitated the country, and particularly in those fearful crises, the Missouri question, the nullification question, and the late slavery question, as connected with the newly acquired territory, involving and endangering the stability of the Union, his has been the leading and most conspicuous part.

It seemed to me it would add greatly to the peace and stability of the shire to enfeoff a man loyal to Stephen but married to a native Cumbrian.

Of course, so long as the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions dominate, it is natural that the lore of stability should impress itself upon science and life.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the great ideologues of geopolitics and the theoreticians of the end of history have consistently posed fundamentalisms as the primary danger facing global order and stability.

German Republic was bereft of a middle-of-the-road political class, it also lacked that stability provided in many other countries by a truly conservative party.

In a time of uncertainty, the Muggle world has found a source of comfort and stability.

The real works were interplays of huge motions, movements that stormed inexorably toward arrival or were forcibly restrained, parts progressing in the collision and collusion of themes, themes that constantly built toward breaking down, recombining from their phrases, lines that urged certain stabilities, expectations, setbacks, the tendencies of chords in their given instant, five or four or three of those delinquent, namable, and straying intervals sounded at once.