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metastability

DEFINITIONS OF: metastability

1

n the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed

Type of:
constancy, stability
the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
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