STABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stability mean? 

• STABILITY (noun)
  The noun STABILITY has 3 senses:

1. the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast

2. a stable order (especially of society)

3. the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

  Familiarity information: STABILITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

stability; stableness

Hypernyms ("stability" is a kind of...):

firmness; steadiness (the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place)

Antonym:

instability (the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute)

Derivation:

stable (firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stable order (especially of society)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("stability" is a kind of...):

order (established customary state (especially of society))

Antonym:

instability (an unstable order)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

constancy; stability

Context example:

early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds

Hypernyms ("stability" is a kind of...):

changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

Attribute:

constant (steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection)

inconstant (likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stability"):

invariance (the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it)

metastability (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)

monotony (constancy of tone or pitch or inflection)

Derivation:

stable (showing little if any change)

stable (resistant to change of position or condition)

 Context examples 

Stability data submitted to a new human drug application.

(New Drug Application, Food and Drug Administration)

Stability data submitted to a new animal drug application.

(New Animal Drug Application, Food and Drug Administration)

The discovery adds significant information about what controls the stability of the Antarctic ice sheets.

(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)

Other important factors for fish diversity are climate stability and the availability of nutrients from fruits, branches and leaves that fall from nearby trees.

(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)

Stability data submitted to a biologics license application.

(Biologics License Application, Food and Drug Administration)

Stabilization with tris instead of lysine further increases stability and may further decrease nephrotoxicity.

(Palifosfamide Tromethamine, NCI Thesaurus)

Stability data submitted for an active ingredient, could be stability data for an active ingredient submitted in a drug application, or a Master File.

(New Active Ingredient, Food and Drug Administration)

This alteration may affect the stability and/or activity of the protein.

(Missense Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

Cholesterol lends stability to the membrane, which is actually a double layer of lipid — or fat — molecules.

(Researchers Zero-In on Cholesterol's Role in Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the stability study the two viruses behaved similarly, which unfortunately fails to explain why COVID-19 has become a much larger outbreak.

(New coronavirus stable for hours on surface, National Institutes of Health)