unstable equilibrium

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unstable
adjective
uk /ʌnˈsteɪ.bəl/ us /ʌnˈsteɪ.bəl/
not solid and firm and therefore not strong, safe, or likely ...
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equilibrium
noun[S or U]
uk /ˌek.wɪˈlɪb.ri.əm/ us /ˌiː.kwəˈlɪb.ri.əm/
a state ...
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Examples of unstable equilibrium

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Rather than a single, stable equilibrium, there are three: two stable (open circles) separated by one unstableequilibrium (diamond).
Further, a larger perturbation is now required to push the system back to the right of the unstableequilibrium and enable it to recover.
The system will tend toward one of the stable equilibria depending on the initial conditions and will move away from the unstableequilibrium.
It may well be, however, that the balance of power in this unstableequilibrium is about to change.
This wildly unstableequilibrium between the communities strained communal relations to breaking point.
The system will recover, moving toward the stable equilibrium and away from the unstableequilibrium.
The unstableequilibrium is indicated by a dashed line; the stable equilibrium is represented by a solid line.
However, the unstableequilibrium and boundary between the long-run equilibria has moved up and to the left.
The historian wants to know the causes that first produced the unstableequilibrium and then upset it.
He will oscillate in that process until he reaches some viable and unstableequilibrium.
When the system is in the neighborhood of an unstableequilibrium, a small perturbation may have catastrophic consequences.
The hyperinflammatory state of patients seems to be of an ongoing nature dependent on an unstable equilibrium between a growing number of triggers and mediators.
In case (ii) the existence of a state of unstableequilibrium implies the existence of unstable disturbances.
In particular, this distribution can have up to two modes and one antimode, where the modes correspond to the stable equilibria and the unstable mode corresponds to the unstableequilibrium.
For a neutrally buoyant particle, they obtained a stable equilibrium position a t 0.71 tube radii from the axis and an unstableequilibrium position a t the axis.
However, note that a small perturbation (a wet phase) can push the system back to the right of the unstableequilibrium, enabling the system to recover to its original state.
He introduces the notion of ' 'viarules' ' as links to non-core subsystems that guarantee that the different grammars of the speech community remain weakly equivalent in their unstableequilibrium.
We must regard education as being in a state of "unstableequilibrium".
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The education system has all the hallmarks of a potential unstableequilibrium.
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