STABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stably mean? 

• STABLY (adverb)
  The adverb STABLY has 2 senses:

1. in a stable solid fixed manner

2. in a stable unchanging manner

  Familiarity information: STABLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a stable solid fixed manner

Context example:

the boulder was balanced stably at the edge of the canyon

Pertainym:

stable (resistant to change of position or condition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a stable unchanging manner

Context example:

the death rate in Russia has been stably high

Pertainym:

stable (showing little if any change)

 Context examples 

The resulting bacterium is the first organism able to stably maintain DNA comprised of 3 types of base pairs.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)

Both MYC boxes I and II contain sufficient information to independently direct the degradation of otherwise stably expressed proteins to which they are fused.

(MYC Box, NCI Thesaurus)

Inserts up to 300 Kb can be cloned and stably maintained as circular molecules.

(Bacterial Artificial Chromosome, NCI Thesaurus)

Once they are firing at full capacity, the thrusters can do no more to keep Cassini stably pointed, and the spacecraft will begin to tumble.

(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)

The MMTV promoter is organized into a phased array of six nucleosomes when stably integrated into mammalian cells.

(hSWI-SNF Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

"Airplanes have a vertical tail to orient stably into the wind," said Lentink.

(Scientists discover how birds navigate crosswinds, National Science Foundation)

Drosophila cells, which do not express any native MHC molecules, have been shown to potently stimulate tumor-reactivity in vitro from human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) when stably transfected with human MHC molecules and appropriate adhesion and costimulatory molecules.

(Autologous CD8 Positive PBL Sensitized to Drosophila Cell-Presented Melanoma Peptides, NCI Thesaurus)

Second, the unnatural base pair would need to be formed during DNA replication like a natural one and line up stably alongside natural pairs in DNA.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)

“Life on Earth in all its diversity is encoded by only 2 pairs of DNA bases, A-T and C-G, and what we’ve made is an organism that stably contains those 2 plus a third, unnatural pair of bases,” Romesberg says.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)