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UK
/stəbˈɪlɪti/
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[ US /stəˈbɪɫɪti/ ]
[ US /stəˈbɪɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
- the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast
- a stable order (especially of society)
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the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds
How To Use stability In A Sentence
- The wide planing hull lends stability for easy shots down tough rapids, and the boat's upturned bow makes punching through big holes a cinch.
- This does not bode well for global stability. Times, Sunday Times
- The ruling dynasties and aristocracies required an essential stability in international as well as domestic affairs.
- Practicing fourths and consecutive sevenths challenges the ear in ways that sixths and thirds don't, in addition to enhancing hand stability.
- In foreign policy, he has Obama's specific mandate to monitor the wind-down of the American troop involvement in Iraq and to baby-sit its tortuous journey to political stability. Jules Witcover: Obama's Sidekick Joe Biden: Understanding The Vice President
- It would be a fully - fledged financial stability agency as well as a monetary policy agency.
- The Government must provide stability and certainty on motoring taxes. The Sun
- Having obtained the metacentric height, reference to a diagram will at once show the whole range of stability; and this being ascertained at each loading, the stowage of the cargo can be so adjusted as to avoid excessive stiffness in the one hand and dangerous tenderness on the other. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
- Soybean protein fiber is of many excellent properties, but poor crinkle - proof and dimension stability.
- ‘They would have needed social stability’, he says, suggesting brochs were not watch towers or forts, but ‘ostentatious signs of status and wealth’.