Crossword clues for labile
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Labile \La"bile\, a. [L. labilis apt to slip, fr. labi to slip.]
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. [Obs.]
--Cheyne.Liable or likely to change.
(Chem.) Easily decomposed or inactivated when subjected to heat, radiation, or mildly acidic or alkaline conditions; -- of chemical compounds; as, enzymes from thermophilic organisms are not as labile as those from mesophiles.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. 2 Apt or likely to change. 3 (context chemistry of a compound or bond English) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
WordNet
adj. open to change; liable to change; "an emotionally labile person"
(chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown
Usage examples of "labile".
Following Ebbinghaus and some of the deductions from diseases of memory, it seemed as if one could align memory along a temporal dimension, in which, in the periods of seconds to minutes to hours following some new experience, processes of perceptual filtering introduced items into a labile, transient short-term memory and from there into a permanent long-term memory.
Cyfer needs a model as simple and labile as baby blocks, a breathtaking Tinkertoy indistinguishable from the thing it imitates.
The whole region gives the impression of being in a state of labile balance.
But her other vaginas, between her eyes and on each palm, had also gone labile, their tissues swollen and flushed.
In the years to come he did not ever see that his patience and forbearance in the matter of his flighty, labile wife were all the evidence of love he actually needed.
Nonetheless the distractions continued, at the very edge of consciousness, and were so labile that the act of turning his attention to them altered them.
Braud suggests that these early moments may be more labile, and hence more susceptible, avenues of change in distant healing.
If the creatures were not labile enough, or were sluggish, it might be too difficult to get them started.
Duffy had suggested calling these twoes of individuals labiles and stabiles, and thisification, while not as famous as extraversion and introversion, was just as solidly backed by empirical evidence, and just as useful in understanding varieties of temperament.