equilibrium

In physics, equilibrium describes a condition in which a system's overall properties have settled into a stable balance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

“The step-up in attacks on ships highlights how the current equilibrium in the oil market is fragile and could easily be shattered,” said Hamad Hussain, a senior economist at Capital Economics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

This is because a rough equilibrium exists between the stock market, interest rates and the cost of acquiring a guaranteed lifetime income.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

It was almost like it made her head feel heavy, like she had to look down or away in order to keep her equilibrium.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

“These two equilibria are self-fulfilling. As soon as a critical mass of bondholders believe they are in a given equilibria their behavior assures that they are!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

They are upsetters of unstable equilibria, and the resultant effect depends infinitely more on the nature of the materials upset than on that of the particular stimulus which joggles them down.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

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

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

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015

In economics, this expectation culminated in the “discovery” that markets move naturally toward stable equilibriums.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2012

It is as much as I can do to hold my own,—and more, unless I am with well-bred people who always keep their equilibriums.

From Gala-days by Gail Hamilton