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stabiliser

n. (label en British spelling) (alternative spelling of stabilizer English)

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stabiliser

n. a device for making something stable [syn: stabilizer]

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Stabiliser (food)

A stabiliser is an additive to food which helps to preserve its structure. Typical uses include preventing oil , water emulsions from separating in products such as salad dressing; preventing ice crystals from forming in frozen food such as ice cream; and preventing fruit from settling in products such as jam , yoghurt and jellys. The following hydrocolloids are the most common ones used as stabilisers:

Stabiliser (archery)

In archery, a stabiliser is a general term for various types of weights, usually on rods, mounted on the bow to increase stability i.e. lessen movement on release, thereby increasing precision.

Stabilisers help reduce inconsistencies of the archer's release by increasing the moment of inertia of the bow. If the shooting technique of the archer were perfect, no stabilisers would be required.

Precision comes from repeatability. The reduction of inadvertent movements enhances repeatability. The various types of stabilisers are each designed to minimise a particular direction of movement. These movements are those that may occur between the instant of true aim/string release, and the arrow flying free: not "follow-through" and similar activities, which merely indicate what went before. All weight added to the centre section will reduce trembling or shake during the aim, but energy to hold the bow against gravity will obviously increase. Also, the addition of weight will change the shooting characteristics and matching of the arrows to the bow. The successful addition of stabilisers can only be achieved by actual testing and precise groupings.

All bodies have inertia, and it is static inertia and non-static inetia that bow-weights "use", which means that they resist movement. Consequently, on the application of any force on the bow, e.g. 1) muscular force, whether voluntary or involuntary: 2) the reaction of the bow to the acceleration of the bow limbs, string and arrow: 3) the further reaction of the bow as the string becomes taut and the arrow flies free: the actual physical movement of the bow centre section will be less with the addition of weights than it would have been without. Clearly, the forces acting on the centre section are potentially the same on any shot, and by increasing the static inertia, movement will be reduced.

Usage examples of "stabiliser".

It felt as heavy as a stage fire curtain, no wonder he needed stabilisers with all that topweight on.

Off to the north-west I could sec the navigation lights of a craft rounding the headland, Skouras returning from his stabiliser test run.

A cloudless night, with the sky crowded with the usual impossible number of stars, a soft, warm wind blowing out of the south, a moderate cross swell running, but no match for our dennybrown stabilisers that could knock twenty-five degrees off a thirty-degree roll without half trying.

The campari, in spite of her stabilisers, was rolling through a ten to-fifteen-degree arc, which meant that there must be a pretty heavy and steep beam sea or swell running.

Just had new stabilisers fitted in the Clyde - we got back up here only two days ago - and it seems like a good day to try them out.

One is whether Sir Anthony really was down at some Clyde shipyard a few days ago having stabilisers fitted -a big job few yards would tackle in a yacht that size.

Tabitha locked herself in her web, pulling in status readings and throwing power to the stabilisers.