instability
ins·ta·bi·lity
noun
2.
unreliability attributable to being unstable
3.
4.
the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute
Origin
From Middle French instabilité, from Latin instabilitas. Morphologically in- + stability.
Phrases
- diocotron instability
- immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies syndrome
- Rayleigh-Taylor instability
- sea of instability
- Turing instability
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