labile
IPA: ɫˈɑbʌɫ
adjective
- Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
- Apt or likely to change.
- (chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
- (linguistics, of a verb) Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
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Examples of "labile" in Sentences
- Her ideology was somewhat labile.
- Labile affect is unstable display of emotion.
- Skin coloration in humans is adaptive and labile.
- The ligands employed are labile and are weakly coordinating.
- It is still used for the oxidation of acid labile substrates.
- The fourth coordination position is taken up by a labile water molecule.
- Heat labile enterotoxin is a type of labile toxin found in Escherichia coli.
- The actions of the person lack consistency and the emotional life is labile.
- It is heat labile in acidic environments and may also be subject to oxidation.
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