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equilibrium

[ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uhm, ek-wuh-] / ˌi kwəˈlɪb ri əm, ˌɛk wə- /


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The researchers prepared the system in an out of equilibrium state and then followed how it changed over time.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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 is rooted in his conviction that feelings evolved to assist in homeostasis, or the maintaining of the body’s internal equilibrium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"An unstable and potentially dangerous equilibrium," is how the situation was described in closed-door remarks by a senior UN official at a recent international gathering.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

She needed Pilate’s calm view, her honesty and equilibrium.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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

Chemical equilibria are dynamic processes characterized by constant amounts of reactant and product species.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

There are indeed two happinesses, that of nature and that of conquest—two equilibria, that of Greece and that of Nazareth—two kingdoms, that of the natural man and that of the regenerate man.

From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

Yet one of Dr. Nash’s critical insights is that there may be many possible outcomes — so-called Nash equilibriums — that produce suboptimal results.

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

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




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