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equilibrium

[ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uhm, ek-wuh-] / ˌi kwəˈlɪb ri əm, ˌɛk wə- /


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It is rooted in his conviction that feelings evolved to assist in homeostasis, or the maintaining of the body’s internal equilibrium.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

A higher sustainable growth rate lifts the economy’s equilibrium interest rate, or what’s known as R*.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

But as others improved on his time, the mile record eventually settled at a kind of equilibrium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

According to the researchers, the problem is that Hawking's approach works only when a black hole is in equilibrium.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

With the success of the Civil Rights Movement and the launching of the Poor People’s Movement, it was apparent to all that a major disruption in the nation’s racial equilibrium had occurred.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Multiple equilibria are possible in a game like this.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

Such properties include a wide variety of measurable traits such as phase equilibria, density, or heat capacity, for example, that characterize physical systems and determine how chemical processes work.

From Science Daily Mar. 13, 2024

"For fundamental research into the dynamics of nutrients and other equilibria in tidal areas, it is very important to understand the role of temperature, salinity, benthic animals and also turmoil by storms."

From Science Daily Feb. 22, 2024

How will an increase in temperature affect each of the following equilibria?

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

Physical organic chemistry; reaction rates, equilibria & mechanisms. © 19Apr40; A138955.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Recent efforts in de-extinction have focused on the Tasmanian tiger, as its natural habitat in Tasmania is still mostly preserved, and its reintroduction could help recovering past ecosystem equilibriums lost after its final disappearance.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2023

With its limit-pushing positional extremes, McGregor’s ballet vocabulary is often likened to that of William Forsythe — undoubtedly an influence, particularly in the hand grips and precarious equilibriums of the partnering work.

From New York Times Jun. 11, 2023

Engineers and architects strive to achieve extremely stable equilibriums for buildings and other systems that must withstand wind, earthquakes, and other forces that displace them from equilibrium.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Nash equilibriums, which he described in the hieroglyphics of mathematical symbols, exist everywhere.

From Washington Post May 24, 2015

The little equilibriums of diplomacy interested him also, and the watching of men immediately under his eye in the Parliament.

From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc




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