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Definition of stable

Stable
Stable Sta"ble, a. (Physics) So placed as to resist forces tending to cause motion; of such structure as to resist distortion or molecular or chemical disturbance; -- said of any body or substance.
Stable
Stable Sta"ble, v. t. To fix; to establish. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Stable Sta"ble, a. [OE. estable, F. stable, fr. L. stabilis, fr. stare to stand. See Stand, v. i. and cf. Establish.] 1. Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. --Rogers. 2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character. And to her husband ever meek and stable. --Chaucer. 3. Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position. Stable equibrium (Mech.), the kind of equilibrium of a body so placed that if disturbed it returns to its former position, as in the case when the center of gravity is below the point or axis of support; -- opposed to unstable equilibrium, in which the body if disturbed does not tend to return to its former position, but to move farther away from it, as in the case of a body supported at a point below the center of gravity. Cf. Neutral equilibrium, under Neutral. Syn: Fixed; steady; constant; abiding; strong; durable; firm.
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Stable Sta"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stabled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stabling.] To put or keep in a stable.
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Stable Sta"ble, v. i. To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel. --Milton.

Meaning of stable from wikipedia

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- Elliot Stabler Sr. is a fictional character, pla**** by Christopher Meloni and one of the lead characters on the NBC police procedural series Law & Order:...
- economics, and computer science, the stable marriage problem (also stable matching problem) is the problem of finding a stable matching between two equally sized...
- Stable nuclides are nuclides that are not radioactive and so (unlike radionuclides) do not spontaneously undergo radioactive decay. When such nuclides...
- Stable equilibrium can refer to: Homeostasis, a state of equilibrium used to describe organisms Mechanical equilibrium, a state in which all particles...
- computer science, a stable sorting algorithm preserves the order of records with equal keys. In numerical analysis, a numerically stable algorithm avoids...
- is said to be stable if its distribution is stable. The stable distribution family is also sometimes referred to as the Lévy alpha-stable distribution...
- are adjacent Invariant set, said to be "stable" under a mapping or transformation Stable manifold or stable set, in dynamical systems, the set of points...
- model theory, a theory is called stable if it satisfies certain combinatorial restrictions on its complexity. Stable theories are rooted in the proof...