stabilization

IPA: steɪbʌɫʌzˈeɪʃʌn

(uncountable) The process of stabilizing.
(countable) The result of being stabilized.
(medicine, uncountable) A preliminary medical process for sick or injured people to attempt to keep their medical condition from deteriorating too much and too quickly before being treated in depth at a medical facility.

Examples of "stabilization" in Sentences

Stabilization of the Columbia has begun.
Most of the stabilization was due to spin.
There is a need to reconsider use of aid for short-term stabilization objectives.
The modern wine industry has in the main decided that tartrate stabilization is preferable to consumer education.
But it says there has been an overemphasis on programs of short-term stabilization over more long-term development and stability projects.
And we typically capitalize costs associated with those until they reach what we call stabilization, which is either they are 93% leased or they are completed for more than 12 months.
But with the unemployment rate stubbornly stuck above 9 percent, Obama will signal a shift Tuesday from short-term stabilization policies toward ones focused on job creation and longer-term growth.
He will encourage action at the Group of Eight summit this week in Deauville, where leaders will consider a short-term stabilization package, particularly for Egypt and Tunisia, that would involve international financial institutions, such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which was set up after the Cold War to help former East Bloc nations.