Relationships Related Term:  fixity n. ~ The quality of resisting change or deterioration. Citations: †(O'Toole 1998, p. 272) Here were the oral and literate side by side, but writing has some ad [..]

  The property of a system or element by virtue of which its output will ultimately attain a steady state. The amount of power that can be transferred from one machine to another following a disturban [..]

  The ability of an electric system to maintain a state of equilibrium during normal and abnormal conditions or disturbances. NERC definition

The degree of resistance of a layer of air to vertical motion.

Stabilité (d'un écosystème)

the quality or state of being steady and not changing or being disturbed in any way (= the quality of being stable) political/economic/social stability the stability of the dollar on the world's [..]

mid-14c., "firmness of resolve, mental equilibrium" (of persons), from Old French stablete, establete "firmness, solidity, stability; durability, constancy" (Modern French stabilit [..]

A technique for assessing the reliability of a measure by measuring the same objects or individuals at two different points in time and then correlating the scores; the procedure is known as test-retest reliability assessment.

balance or steadiness.

The ability to withstand force or stress without alteration of position and without material change. Term may apply to an object, system or organization. Editor's Note: A project organization is [..]

Limiting macroeconomic fluctuations in prices, employment, and production. This is one of the five economic goals, specifically one of the three macro goals (the other two are economic growth and full [..]

- A term that refers to the stability of the disc as to its straightness of flight. See overstable, stable and under [..]

the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast a stable order (especially of society) constancy: the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners rel [..]

Overstable

The invariability of a specified property of a substance, device, or apparatus with time, or under the influence of typically extrinsic factors.

when the DALR and SALR are both higher than the ELR then an air mass will be cooler than its surroundings and will sink back to its original position once the upward forces on it have ceased e.g. gett [..]

The tendency for an object to keep traveling in the same direction - or along the same line.

The ability of an instrument or sensor to maintain a consistent output when a constant input is applied.

Artificial satellite's ability to maintain a constant orientation in space.

The ability to resist change or to return to a condition after a change in condition. © 2014 Nature Education

The quality of paper to maintain its original size when it undergoes pressure and moisture changes.

Definition Absence of volatility; usually desirable.

In ecological terms, a dynamic equilibrium among the physical and biological factors in an ecosystem or a community; relative homeostasis. stabilizing selection

1. The lack of motion and variation as applied to genetics, emotion and body position. 2. The extent to which a person will maintain the same rank order in a test.

stability (pop)

Refers to the ratio of the suppression of turbulence by thermal effects to the generation of turbulence by mechanical effects such as wind shears. Transport and dispersion models characterize the effe [..]

(L: stare= to stand; stabilis= stable, firm) the ability of an (eco) system to retain its structure and functioning in the presence of disturbances. See also resilience.

The force that holds a vessel upright or returns it to upright if keeled over. Weight in the lower hold increases stability. A vessel is stiff if it has high stability, tender if it has low stability.

the ability of a ship to return to its original, upright position after displacement by strong winds, sea, or conditions of loading. Stability is concerned with the ship’s centre of gravity.

The force that holds a vessel upright or returns it to upright if keeled over. Weight in the lower hold increases stability. A vessel is stiff if it has high stability, tender if it has low stability.

A scale is stable when the results do not change after a weight has been added to the platform.

See Chemical stability.

The ability of an asphalt paving mixture to resist deformation from imposed loads. Stability depends on both internal friction and cohesion.

Relative resistance of a product to an undesirable breakdown or change. For fats and oils, stability may refer to resistance to oxidation, hydrolysis, flavour reversion and formation of off odours and flavours.

(n) the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast(n) a stable order (especially of society)(n) the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

An indication of how easily a parcel of air is lifted. If the air is very stable it is difficult to make the parcel rise. If the air is very unstable the parcel may rise on its own once started.

 - The ability of a device to maintain its performance characteristics over a specified period of time.

 The property of a system or element by virtue of which its output will ultimately attain a steady state. The amount of power that can be transferred from one machine to another following a disturbance. The stability of a power system is its ability to develop restoring forces equal to or greater than the disturbing forces so as to maintain a state [..]

The ability of an electric system to maintain a state of equilibrium during normal and abnormal system conditions or disturbances.

stabilitas

The quality of maintaining a constant character in the presence of forces that threaten to disturb it.

Ability of a system to maintain control when subject to severe outside disturbances.

  A pre-requisite of cycling, and hampered by poor surface conditions, obstructions and steep gradients.

The property of a system or element by virtue of which its output will ultimately attain a steady state. The amount of power that can be transferred from one machine to another following a disturbance. The stability of a power system is its ability to develop restoring forces equal to or greater than the disturbing forces so as to maintain a state [..]

Ability to remain stable in frequency, power level, etc.

A term used to describe the resistance of a solid drug or solution of a drug to reaction.

The extent to which an enzyme retains its structural conformation or its activity when subjected to storage, isolation, and purification or various other physical or chemical manipulations, including [..]

The ability of a protein to retain its structural conformation or its activity when subjected to physical or chemical manipulations.

The extent to which an RNA molecule retains its structural integrity and resists degradation by RNase, and base-catalyzed Hydrolysis, under changing in vivo or In Vitro conditions.

The capacity of a vessel to return to its original position after having been displaced by external forces. The stability of a vessel depends on the meta-centric height. A term when used in relation to ships means the desired balance between cargo, ballast, and buoyancy, to ensure that the vessel will not capsize during the expected conditions duri [..]

Not heeling; as in: This catamaran has greater stability than a monohull of the same length.

Tendency of the ship to remain upright.

It is paramount that a vessel is stable in all respects at all times. When cargo is loaded / discharged, the stability is monitored by a computer, which takes into account the weight and position of c [..]

The tendency in a boat to keep an upright position or to return to it when careened over.

The tendency in a boat to keep an upright position or to return to it when careened over.

The ability of a ship to return to her normal upright position when listed by the action of waves, wind, etc.

The tendency in a boat to keep an upright position or to return to it when careened over.

The ability of an ecosystem to resist change (from Makins, 1991)

The force that holds a vessel upright or returns it to upright if keeled over. Weights on the lower hold increase stability. A vessel is stiff if it has high stability, tender if it has low stability.

Session-to-session variability in performance (the lower the variability, the more stable the performance). A performance that can shift from one to another of two or more steady-state baselines maint [..]

A function of several characteristics of community or ecosystem dynamics, including the degree of population fluctuations, the community’s resistance to disturbances, the speed of recovery from disturbances and the persistence of the community’s composition through time.

the degree to which the composted material can be stored or used without giving rise to nuisances, or can be applied to the soil without causing problems due to incomplete degradation of readily biodegradable materials.

Positions of unstable equilibrium, even if they exist, are transient, nonpersistent states, and hence on the crudest probability calculation would ...

The time over which components of a gas mixture will remain at their certified concentrations within specified tolerances.

The state or property of resisting change or of tending to return to original conditions after being disturbed. The opposite is INSTABILITY.

A state of the atmosphere in which the vertical distribution of temperature is such that a parcel will resist displacement from its initial level. (See also instability.)

The degree of resistance of a layer of air to vertical motion.

The time over which components of a gas mixture will remain at their certified concentrations within specified tolerances.

The detector's stability is it's ability to maintain threshold without drifting out of tune. Instability can also result from outside electric interference such as power lines or from chatte [..]

The quality of paper to maintain its original size when it undergoes pressure and moisture changes.

Often used to mean constancy; more often in this book, the propensity to return to a condition (a stable equilibrium) or to one of several such conditions (multiple stable equilibria) after displacement from that condition.

Stability is best defined as the opposite of instability, which is the occurrence of large structural deformations which are not the result of material failure.

Montoya and Solé (2003) define stability as the speed with which the system recovers after a disturbance. In the general ecology literature, “stability” usually has connotations of both resistance and resilience. Static vs. Dynamic:

The consistency in results from test to retest. The term Reliability

The quality of an instrument or sensor to maintain a consistent output when a constant input is applied.

Occurs when a rising air parcel is denser than the surrounding air.

The abiliy of a structure to resist forces.

The quality of paper to maintain its original size when it undergoes pressure and moisture changes.

The quality of paper to maintain its original size when it undergoes pressure and moisture changes.

The degree of resistance of a layer of air to vertical motion.

The quality of paper to maintain its original size when it undergoes pressure and moisture changes.

The quality of paper to maintain its original size when it undergoes pressure and moisture changes.

The quality of paper to maintain its original size when it undergoes pressure and moisture changes.

An inherent characteristic of an oscillator that determines how well it can produce the same frequency over a given time interval. In a magnetron, the ability to maintain normal operating characterist [..]

The property of a system or element by virtue of which its output will ultimately attain a steady state. The stability of a power system is its ability to develop restoring forces equal to or greater than the disturbing forces so as to maintain a state of equilibrium.

The ability of an instrument or sensor to maintain a consistent output when a constant input is applied. Further Reading

The ability of a structure to maintain its shape or position with variations in applied load. An unstable structure is undesirable, as the changing shape of the structure causes the point of application of force to move, thus increasing the adverse effect on the structure.

Condition reached in the loading of a structural component, frame or structure in which a slight disturbance in the loads or geometry, does not produce large displacements.

The ability of an instrument or sensor to maintain a consistent output when a constant input is applied.

The relative steadiness or safety of a security or fund compared to the market as a whole. For example, money market funds and other short-term investments offer more stability than funds that invest [..]

Stability may refer to:

In probability theory, the stability of a random variable is the property that a linear combination of two independent copies of the variable has the same distribution, up to location and scale para [..]

Stability is a short science fiction story by Philip K. Dick, first written around 1947, but not published until 1987 in Volume I of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. The story is set in the fa [..]

Stability, also known as algorithmic stability, is a notion in computational learning theory of how a machine learning algorithm is perturbed by small changes to its inputs. A stable learning algorit [..]