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metastabilities

metastabilities is the plural of metastability.

Meaning of metastability

Noun

metastability (countable and uncountable, plural metastabilities)

  1. An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
    • Soloman's belief that love is necessarily paradoxical issues from his attempt to define it as what Sartre would call a dialectical metastability. Love must therefore be not a "state of the union but a never ending conflict of pushing away and pulling together."1989, Irving Singer, The Nature of Love

Questions about metastabilities

What is metastabilities the plural of?
Metastabilities is the plural of metastability.

Words near metastabilities in the dictionary

  1. metaspatiality
  2. metasperm
  3. metasperms
  4. metasprite
  5. metasprites
  6. metastabilities
  7. metastability
  8. metastable
  9. metastable isomer
  10. metastable isomers
  11. metastables

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