equilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkwɪˈlɪbɹɪəm/
ipa: /iːkwɪˈlɪbɹɪəm/
Forms: form: equilibriums
form: equilibria
form: æquilibrium
Etymology: From Latin aequilībrium, from equal + lībra (“balance”).
Senses: examples: text: To Hydroſtaticks belong whatever relates to the Gravities and Equilibria of Liquors; with the Art of weighing Bodies in Water, in order to eſtimate the ſpecifick Gravities.
ref: 1733, Philip Miller, “HYDROSTATICKS”, in The Gardeners Dictionary: […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: 1999, The Matrix, Agent Smith speech
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
synonyms: balance
stability
antonyms: disequilibrium
imbalance
instability
glosses: The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
examples: text: Tiffany Pollard: What just happened?!
Eric Andre: That coffee mug is broken.
Tiffany Pollard: I can't take this. This is gonna mess up my equilibrium.
ref: 2020, The Eric Andre Show, season 5, episode 6:
synonyms: sanity
antonyms: insanity
instability
madness
glosses: Mental balance.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
examples: text: It now appears that the locomotive did not blow up, as was commonly stated at the time, but that the aeroplane flew so low as to come into contact with the dome of the engine, knocking it off. It was the combination of the impact and the uprush of steam that so disturbed the equilibrium of the raider as to cause it to crash.
ref: 1943 May and June, “Notes and News: Effective Locomotive "Ack-Ack" Fire”, in Railway Magazine, page 180:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: disequilibrium
non-equilibrium
glosses: The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
Hypernyms: sense: in physics
word: stasis
Hyponyms: sense: in physics
english: thermodynamic equilibrium state of maximum entropy
translation: thermodynamic equilibrium state of maximum entropy
word: heat death
Derived terms: acid-base equilibrium
chemical equilibrium
disequilibrium
dynamic equilibrium
dynamic stochastic general equilibrium
dysequilibrium
economic equilibrium
equilibrist
equilibrium constant
equilibrium price
equilibrium time
equilibrium vapor pressure
general equilibrium
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
heterogeneous equilibrium
homogeneous equilibrium
hydrostatic equilibrium
hypoequilibrium
isoequilibrium
market equilibrium
Nash equilibrium
neutral equilibrium
nonequilibrium
partial equilibrium
photoequilibrium
preequilibrium
pseudoequilibrium
punctuated equilibrium
quasiequilibrium
radioactive equilibrium
reequilibrium
secular equilibrium
stable equilibrium
static equilibrium
superequilibrium
thermodynamic equilibrium
unstable equilibrium
Related terms: equilibrate
equilibrioception
equilibrize
equivalence