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metastable
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective metastable has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
metastable, adj.
1 (of a state of equilibrium) stable only under small disturbances.
2 passing to another state so slowly as to seem stable.
1 (of a state of equilibrium) stable only under small disturbances.
2 passing to another state so slowly as to seem stable.
Derivative
metastability n.
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