metastability

1. The quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed (synset 104746502)
   referred to in: natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions
   is a type of: constancy, stability - the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

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