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