metastability
metastability · metastabilities
Metastabilität
An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a systemAn unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
Metastabilität
More definitions
- the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed
Translations
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By meaning 1
unstable but potentially long-lived state:
Forms
plural: metastabilities| Singular | metastability |
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Word family
1 related wordsDerivedmetastable
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable