Stability

Template:Wiktionarypar Stability can refer to:

Plasma stability, a measure of how likely a perturbation in a plasma is to be damped out
BIBO stability (Bounded Input, Bounded Output stability), in signal processing and control theory, part of electrical engineering
Lyapunov stability, a mathematical concept used to evaluate numerical solutions of dynamical systems
Structural stability, a mathematical concept used to evaluate numerical solutions of dynamical systems
Stability radius, a property of continuous polynomial functions
Ecological stability, measure of the probability of a population returning quickly to a previous state, or not going extinct
Social stability, lack of civil unrest in a society
Numerical stability, a property of numerical algorithms which describes how errors in the input data propagate through the algorithm
Stability (probability), a property of probability distributions

Another form of the word, the adjective stable:

Stable isotopes, chemical isotopes that are not radioactive
Stable polynomial, a polynomial whose roots all lie in the open left half-plane or whose roots all lie in the open unit disk

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