Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being unstable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unstable; want of stability or firmness, physical or moral; liability to fall, fail, give way, or suffer change.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or condition of being unstable; lack of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness.
- noun Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The quality of being
unstable . - noun physics, countable A state that is not in
equilibrium , or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unstable order
- noun unreliability attributable to being unstable
- noun the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute
- noun a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lubos is using the term instability the way I find it meaningful.
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So there lies (excuse the pun) the problem for the West either to intervene in Libya and cause further mayhem for years to come (Iraq, Afghanistan) or let the problem pan out with short term instability and persecution..decisions decisions Obama and co...
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Short interest in this stock is starting to grow and day traders should watch this in order to take advantage of some short term instability.
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An unemployment check might be a family's last line of defense against the poor health, disruptions in education, and long-term instability that are associated with severe poverty.
Michelle Chen: Washington's Debt Panic and the Real Social Debt in America Michelle Chen 2011
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An unemployment check might be a family's last line of defense against the poor health, disruptions in education, and long-term instability that are associated with severe poverty.
Michelle Chen: Washington's Debt Panic and the Real Social Debt in America Michelle Chen 2011
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The name of Mr. Wouk's antihero, Captain Queeg, has become useful shorthand for a leader whose instability is exceeded only by his incompetence.
War Stories Cynthia Crossen 2010
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An unemployment check might be a family's last line of defense against the poor health, disruptions in education, and long-term instability that are associated with severe poverty.
Michelle Chen: Washington's Debt Panic and the Real Social Debt in America Michelle Chen 2011
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Ivan Duane Braden, a former National Guardsman discharged from an Iraq-bound unit after superiors noted signs of instability, is arrested after checking into a mental health facility and telling counselors about plans to blow up a synagogue and a National Guard armory in Tennessee.
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An unemployment check might be a family's last line of defense against the poor health, disruptions in education, and long-term instability that are associated with severe poverty.
Michelle Chen: Washington's Debt Panic and the Real Social Debt in America Michelle Chen 2011
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An unemployment check might be a family's last line of defense against the poor health, disruptions in education, and long-term instability that are associated with severe poverty.
Michelle Chen: Washington's Debt Panic and the Real Social Debt in America Michelle Chen 2011
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