what does the term equilibrium refer to?
equilibrium; chemical equilibrium. Hypernyms (equilibrium is a kind of...): chemical reaction; reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of equilibrium): poise (a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium) Nash equilibrium ((game theory) a stable state of a system that involves several interacting participants in which no participant can gain by a change of strategy as long as all the other participants remain unchanged)