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/ɛkwɪˈlɪbɹɪəm/ · noun
The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change..
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.
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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.
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.
Use equilibrium when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Equilibrium means The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change..
Common synonyms include balance, stability, sanity, counterbalance.
Possible antonyms include disequilibrium, imbalance, instability, insanity.
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.
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