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Unreliability attributable to being unstable
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instability
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being unstable. 2 (context physics countable English) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
Wikipedia
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In numerous fields of study, the component of instability within a system is generally characterized by some of the outputs or internal states growing without bounds . Not all systems that are not stable are unstable; systems can also be marginally stable ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE economic ▪ The main disadvantage is that political or economic instability within the country may cause problems outside the control of the parent company. ▪ Gold is seen by many investors as a safe haven in times ...
WordNet
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n. an unstable order [ant: stability ] unreliability attributable to being unstable a state of disequilibrium (as may occur in cases of inner ear disease) [syn: imbalance , unbalance ] [ant: balance ] the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French instabilite "inconstancy," from Latin instabilitatem (nominative instabilitas ) "unsteadiness," from instabilis "unsteady," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + stabilis (see stable (2)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Instability \In`sta*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Instabilities . [L. instabilitas: cf. F. instabilit['e].] The quality or condition of being unstable; lack of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, ...
Usage examples of instability.
A planet abides that life which accepts its whims, but man it rejects, man it seeks to obliterate, pitting the monumental force of its instability against that pitiful life form, driving man forth to seek the stars or die.
Mars has laid stress on a feedback mechanism known as advective instability.
Immediately, instabilities arose among the simulated cores, insoluble disagreements throwing them into deadlock.
Women in modest skirts or slightly unflattering pantsuits, like Jesse Simons, the Deconstructionist, who argued that doping the water supply was embracing the nomadic sign system of Albertine, which of course represented not some empirical astrophysical event, but, rather, a symbolic reaction to the crisis of instability caused by American Imperialism.
Because of her history of sexual abuse, proven sexual track record, and suggestion of mental instability, the Wests would have been certain that there was every chance that she would never be believed - even if she did report the events of that morning to the police or the Social Services.
You dare not, you cannot deny, that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other--of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, and the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.
If the Engineers kept up their attempts to attack the Orbitals, if the warheads kept betraying their age and instability, if Duncan kept on throwing rocks, food, water, and air would be contaminated with radioactive fallout.
He referred to international data banks for stock-market trends, economic indicators, unemployment data, factory closings, interest rates, wage-price movements, financial-institution failures, strikes, lock-outs, bankruptcies, foreclosures, fluctuations in exchange rates, commodity prices, oil and gas shortages, imbalances of trade, assassinations, political instabilities, coups, terrorist attacks, and third-world nuclear capabilities.
Such a region is the result of an instability between the two congruent universes.
This could build up to the point of instability, when it became necessary to annihilate or create dark matter at the Bridgeheads to redress the energy balance.
Increased chronometric radiation was, according to unproven theory, indicative of increased instability.
To me, this gave him an element of instability, of counterstrength, of violence.
He could see the cube had filled with datasheets, fuzzy green script with a perceptible Y-axis instability.
These people must have been trying to replicate my desalination process and were unaware of the material's instability.
If we can inflict sufficient losses on the local naval forces to provide the Emperor with a pretext, the Empire will declare that the instability in this region of the Confederacy has become great enough in its opinion to threaten a general destabilization of the area.