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Of or pertaining to a physical or chemical state that is relatively long-lived, but may decay to a lower energy state when slightly perturbed or through a quantum transition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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A particle, etc. in the metastable state.
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(of physical systems) continuing in its present state of equilibrium unless sufficiently disturbed to pass to a more stable state of equilibrium
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
metaestable
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Chinese Mandarin:
介穩 /介稳
(jièwěn)
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Chinese Mandarin:
亞穩 /亚稳
(yàwěn)
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Finnish:
metastabiili
— of a long-lived unstable state
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French:
métastable
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Galician:
metastábel
— of a long-lived unstable state
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German:
metastabil
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Greek:
μετασταθής
(metastathís)
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Ido:
metastabila
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Italian:
metastabile
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Polish:
metastabilny
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Portuguese:
metaestável
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Romanian:
metastabil
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Russian:
мѐтастаби́льный
(mètastabílʹnyj)
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Spanish:
metaestable
— of a long-lived unstable state
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Turkish:
yarı kararlı
— of a long-lived unstable state