Term: metastability: the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed
Candidate hypernym: constancy: the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation → 1
Candidate hypernym: elastance unit: the reciprocal of capacitance → 0
Candidate hypernym: turfing daisy: mat-forming perennial herb of Asia Minor; sometimes included in genus Matricaria → 0
Candidate hypernym: horizontal: something that is oriented horizontally → 0
Candidate hypernym: pipefish: fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates → 0
Candidate hypernym: ocher: any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment → 0
Candidate hypernym: bald cypress: common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base; found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms → 0
Candidate hypernym: traditionalism: adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters) → 0
Candidate hypernym: cestida: ctenophore having short tentacles; one family → 0
Candidate hypernym: nilo-saharan: a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania → 0
Candidate hypernym: apadana: the great hall in ancient Persian palaces → 0