equilibrium
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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
This has freed up more homes for buyers and returned demand and supply to a healthier equilibrium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The best way to illustrate this equilibrium is with annuity payout rates — how much monthly income you could purchase with a given amount of money.
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
Audrey said in a soft voice, regaining her equilibrium.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
“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
Such equilibria can only be maintained for a moment.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington
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
Mr. Spokesly might be a man of inferior calibre, easily swayed by the prospect of easy money, but his mind swung naturally to the equilibriums of respectability.
From Command by William McFee
Vocabulary lists containing equilibrium
Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Middle School
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Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Introductory
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Chemistry - Introductory
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