What is "stabilized"

Usage examples of "stabilized".

Beyond it on four sides reached gleaming planes that came to knifelike edges at some distance he did not yet know how to gauge-four of the solar and magnetic sails that stabilized the great cylindroid on its path and its axis.

Barely making headway, the huge craft slipped slowly through the water, stabilized by her fairwater planes.

By the time the snagfield had stabilized her in realspace, pinning her there with its enormous pseudo mass, Picarefy was almost back to full capacity.

Star systems, galaxies, clusters and superclusters, all stabilized by orbital motion, were impossible here.

With the parafoil deployed and stabilized, the bottom two-thirds of his penetrator slipped smoothly from his body, the reentry canister plummeting groundward.

Jets fired, the small craft stabilized, and followed a precalculated glide path toward the surface.

The astrologer dropped a heavy brass protractor on it, and rested his elbows on the flattened and stabilized mass.

Others had been resuscitated and stabilized, only to succumb to secondary infections that swiftly developed into toxic shock.

Damn this place, damn Sardonyx Sector, and damn and double damn the people of this planet, who had stabilized and made functional a social system based on degradation and drugs.

After she was stabilized, unrecoverable tissue-in this case, a leg-was excised.

Losses would be made up as needed by the mechanisms of the Gates and Anchors, but once the temperatures stabilized in the life zone and the shield was in place, this was a matter of minor fine tuning, not a constant battle.

When conditions had stabilized and the Tau image remained unchanged, Brevis left the blister and went to the control room where the activity was now centred.

She stabilized it in an instant, and she finished the solo perfectly, but when she looked up at the control-room window again, she saw Devi watching her intently.

That plate on the front is a hundred-meter disk of compressed matter, electromagnetically stabilized.

After their orbits were stabilized with a perigee no less than a hundred thousand kilometres, their ores had been mined out and the refined metal sent down to the planet below in the form of giant lifting bodies which coasted through the atmosphere to a splash-glide landing in the ocean.