metastability

Definitions of metastability
  1. noun
    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
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    type of:
    constancy, stability
    the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
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