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adj. - (of physical systems) continuing in its present state of equilibrium unless sufficiently disturbed to pass to a more stable state of equilibrium.

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  • Technetium-99m, where "m" stands for "metastable" -, one resorts to another isotope, Molybdenum-99.
  • This spring (a period of great disappointment for our farmers) was a period of the so-called metastable conditions of rain clouds.
  • Setup or hold violations cause the output of the flip-flop to enter a symmetrically balanced transient state, called a metastable state.
  • They manipulate the water in the xylem under negative pressure - what's called a metastable liquid state - right on the verge of becoming a vapor.
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