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instability

noun

Etymology

From Middle French instabilité, from Latin instabilitas. Morphologically in- + stability.

  1. derived from stabilité
  2. inherited from stabletee
  3. prefixed as instability — “in- + stability”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being unstable.

    • The template is [Richard] Nixon’s “madman theory” of diplomatic engagement – shorthand for prompting your adversaries to doubt your sanity and mental instability to the point where they are intimidated into otherwise unlikely concessions.

  2. A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible…

    A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.

The neighborhood

Derived

diocotron instability, microinstability, photoinstability, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, sea of instability, Turing instability

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA