instability
The quality of being unstable.
Other meanings
A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
Related words
- microinstability
- photoinstability
- diocotron instability
- Turing instability
- Rayleigh-Taylor instability
- sea of instability
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