Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Immobile; unchangeable; stable.
- noun An abstract sculpture, usually of sheet metal, resembling a mobile but having no moving parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fixed; firm: noting, in electrotherapeutics, an electrode which is kept applied to one part, as distinguished from a labile electrode, which is moved about over the surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Abstract sculpture or structure of wire, sheet metal, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (chemistry, physics, biology) resistant to change
- adjective not able or intended to be moved
- noun a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Experimental users are responsible themselves for moving early to a "stabile" Ubuntu version.
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Experimental users are responsible themselves for moving early to a "stabile" Ubuntu version.
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Third, entertaining Syria, whether through peace with Israel or through reviving US-Syrian bilateral relations would keep Syria quite, and therefore the region stabile.
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Here, the prizes among the 13 well-placed sculptures are a rusting steel "Stele" by Kelly; one of Louise Bourgeois's giant black spiders; and a six-legged metal "stabile" by Calder.
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And it is this submerged stabile flight at a depth of 10 meters that sets the “sQuba” apart from military vehicles.
I Want! 2008
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If we kept the adventure in Somalia going and equipped our forces properly in Somalia with Armored vehicles the military wanted, could we now have a stabile Somalia, instead of an economy that is based on piratism?
Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not | ATTACKERMAN 2008
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Third, entertaining Syria, whether through peace with Israel or through reviving US-Syrian bilateral relations would keep Syria quite, and therefore the region stabile.
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Please think how much longer will your current situation be stabile.
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The one stabile point in the vortex of energy around him.
Let's look at the photos the NYT uses to illustrate a piece titled "On Bailout, Candidates Were Surely Themselves." Ann Althouse 2008
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I want, I want hawaii, I don't know about a road trip to SF, I suppose that is more reasonable now, that we are stabile and I just sold another DVD set on ebay tonight.
Still Kicking: winter won't beat me! Elizabeth McClung 2008
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