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stabilizer

US/ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɚ/

stabilizer noun: any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.

Noun

stabilizer (plural stabilizers)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US) An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.
    Synonyms:
    training wheel
  3. (British, English, Oxford, US) A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
  4. (British, English, Oxford, US) An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
  5. (British, English, Oxford, US) A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
  6. (British, English, Oxford, US) For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.

stabilizer meaning in Tamil

stabilizer in Tamil

airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile
நிலைப்படுத்தி nilaippaṭutti

Examples of stabilizer in a sentence

  • The circuit uses a single ancilla for each stabilizer generator.
  • If a group acts on itself through conjugation, then its orbits are its conjugacy classes and its stabilizer subgroups are its centralizers.
  • The plane will have a glass fuselage, glass wings, glass ailerons and glass stabilizers.

All 16 example sentences with stabilizer

Synonyms of stabilizer

Forms of stabilizer

pluralstabilizers
alternative formstabiliser

Plural of stabilizer: stabilizers

Origin of stabilizer

From stabilize + -er.

Words formed from stabilizer

Phrases with stabilizer

Questions about stabilizer

What does stabilizer mean?
Stabilizer means any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
What is stabilizer in Tamil?
Stabilizer in Tamil is நிலைப்படுத்தி (nilaippaṭutti). See Stabilizer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stabilizer?
Stabilizer is a noun.
How do you pronounce stabilizer?
Stabilizer is pronounced /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of stabilizer?
The plural of stabilizer is stabilizers.

Words near stabilizer in the dictionary

  1. stabilization fund
  2. stabilization funds
  3. stabilizations
  4. stabilize
  5. stabilized
  6. stabilizer
  7. stabilizer subgroup
  8. stabilizer subgroups
  9. stabilizers
  10. stabilizes
  11. stabilizing

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