metastability

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom. countable,uncountable
    — 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."

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Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English stability
English metastability
From meta- + stability.
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