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equilibrium

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


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The researchers prepared the system in an out of equilibrium state and then followed how it changed over time.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“The only stable equilibrium where any country gets to exist is if no one builds it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Today, something in that fragile equilibrium was broken forever."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

More important, unemployment has been hovering in the 4.1% to 4.4% range for more than two years, making that look like an equilibrium position for the labor market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

“It is impossible to perform any act of kindness toward you two. Always the same phantasm! I merely kept all dials at equilibrium in accordance with the will of the Master.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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

A phase diagram combines plots of pressure versus temperature for the liquid-gas, solid-liquid, and solid-gas phase-transition equilibria of a substance.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Or, we may speak of equilibria among social forces.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson

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

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

Mr. Varoufakis agreed that in the Greece example, “the game has multiple equilibriums and, therefore, a failure to agree may trigger a chain of outcomes that no one can either predict or control.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2015

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

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015

By means of equilibriums all things in both worlds are preserved; without this all things would perish.

From Spiritual Life and the Word of God by Emanuel Swedenborg




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