Equilibrium

Quick meaning: Equilibrium is a noun meaning The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.

Meaning

The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.

More Meanings

1. Mental balance.
2. (chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
3. (physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.

Example Sentences

Tiffany Pollard: What just happened?! Eric Andre: That coffee mug is broken. Tiffany Pollard: I can't take this. This is gonna mess up my equilibrium.

To Hydroſtaticks belong whatever relates to the Gravities and Equilibria of Liquors; with the Art of weighing Bodies in Water, in order to eſtimate the ſpecifick Gravities.

It now appears that the locomotive did not blow up, as was commonly stated at the time, but that the aeroplane flew so low as to come into contact with the dome of the engine, knocking it off. It was the combination of the impact and the uprush of steam that so disturbed the equilibrium of the raider as to cause it to crash.

1999, The Matrix, Agent Smith speech Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.

Word Forms

• equilibriums
• equilibria

Synonyms for equilibrium

Depending on context, synonyms include balance, stability, sanity, counterbalance, equipoise.

Antonyms for equilibrium

Common opposites include disequilibrium, imbalance, instability, insanity, madness, nonequilibrium.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include balance, equipoise, counterbalance, equilibration, balanced, poise.

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