stability
IPA: stʌbˈɪɫɪti
noun
- The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
- The tendency to recover from perturbations.
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Examples of "stability" in Sentences
- The apparent stability is illusory.
- I question the stability of the user.
- Aplomb refers to stability of the position.
- It wholly undermines the stability of the ground.
- CHO: The NTSB will be conducting what it calls a stability test.
- This lamppost gives vertical stability and balance to the painting.
- Exercises at the barre begin the training of the stability and balance.
- The more stability you can crate in the core, the easier it will be to balance.
- It's ok, don't strain yourself ... its called stability, which is nowhere in sight and not likely for years.
- We're thinking very seriously about moving into what we call stability operations in most of the country, where we'll work, focus on reconstruction efforts.
- If you're benching, the chains are rattling and you kind of feel the weight changing, so you have to make sure your stability is there, and also you add a lot more weight to it.
- Round two, now we're in what we call stability and support operations where we're dealing with, as you pointed out earlier, just these people running around without uniforms on, etcetera.
- Washington says it will need more personnel and a bigger embassy to supervise the distribution of the increased aid to Pakistan, and more mercenaries (aka "contractors") to protect them and assure "stability" - a code word for the Pax Americana.
- Related Article Another Theater for S&P Drama Port Town's Prosecutors Probe S&P, Moody's Earlier Call to Downsize Giants of Ratings 08/10/2011 To give their ratings what they call "stability," the ratings firms tend to focus on static indicators that change slowly, like current-account balances.
- Then after the regime fell, and the transition between maneuver combat to what they call stability and support operations, or the current counterinsurgency, there was a lot of movement by those that wanted to fight the coalition to confiscate, move, hide, move to and secure themselves these weapons for future use.
- That I think the operations in about three quarters of that country will probably shift in the near future to what we call stability operations where the reconstruction that's so important for the long-term stability and prosperity of the Afghan people will take place and will enable other nongovernmental organizations and so forth to come in.
- Thus the prominent foreign policy analyst James Chace was properly using the term "stability" in its technical sense when he explained that in order to achieve "stability" in Chile it was necessary to "destabilize" the country by overthrowing the elected government of Salvador Allende and installing the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.