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METASTABILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("metastability" is a kind of...):
constancy; stability (the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
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