Stability

Stability

Stability can refer to:
*Aircraft flight Stability (aircraft)
*In atmospheric fluid dynamics, atmospheric stability, a measure of the turbulence in the ambient atmosphere
*BIBO stability (Bounded Input, Bounded Output stability), in signal processing and control theory, part of electrical engineering
*Directional stability, the tendency for a body moving with respect to a medium to point in the direction of motion
*Chemical stability, occurring when a substance is in a dynamic chemical equilibrium with its environment
*Ecological stability, measure of the probability of a population returning quickly to a previous state, or not going extinct
*Economic stability
*Numerical stability, a property of numerical algorithms which describes how errors in the input data propagate through the algorithm
*Plasma stability, a measure of how likely a perturbation in a plasma is to be damped out
*Relaxed stability, the property of inherently unstable aircraft
*stability of a point in geometric invariant theory.
*Stability conditions of waterborne vessels.
*Stability (probability), a property of probability distributions
*Stability radius, a property of continuous polynomial functions
*Stability theory, the study of the stability of solutions to differential equations and dynamical systems
**Lyapunov stability
**Structural stability
*"The Stability E.P.", a 2002 three song EP by Death Cab for Cutie

See also:
*Stable (disambiguation)
*Homeostasis
*Equilibrium (disambiguation)
*Balance
*Instability
*Fault-tolerant system
*Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics


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