• n.
    ⦿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

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:metastability
wn:interlingual indexili:i61931

Other

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelmetastability