Metastability
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metastability is a noun meaning An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
Meaning
An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
Example Sentences
Soloman's belief that love is necessarily paradoxical issues from his attempt to define it as what Sartre would call a dialectical metastability. Love must therefore be not a "state of the union but a never ending conflict of pushing away and pulling together."
Word Forms
- metastabilities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metastate, metabolon, superequilibrium, spinoidal, overstability, hysteresivity.
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