The property of a chemical compound which is not readily decomposed and does not react with other compounds.

The property of a system for which any bounded input signal results in a bounded output signal.

The property of a body, as an aircraft, rocket, or ship, to maintain its attitude or to resist displacement, and, if displaced, to develop forces and moments tending to restore the original condition.

The resistance to overturning or mixing in the water column, resulting from the presence of a positive (increasing downward) density gradient.

1. The resistance of a structure, spoil heap, or clay bank to sliding, overturning, or collapsing.

2. Chemical durability, resistance to weathering.

Of a fuel, the capability to retain its characteristics in an adverse environment, for example, extreme temperature.

Stability theory of systems of differential equations deals with those solution functions possessing some particular property that still maintain the property after a perturbation.

See <<dynamic stability>>

1. The property of a system which does not undergo any change without the application of an external agency.

2. The property of a system in which any departure from an equilibrium state gives rise to forces or influences which tend to return the system to equilibrium. Also known as static stability.

The property of a plasma which maintains its shape against externally applied forces (usually pressure of magnetic fields) and whose constituents can pass through confining fields only by diffusion of individual particles.