Stability 28946 222437711 2008-06-29T10:07:56Z Evolauxia 100838 two atmospheric usages {{wiktionary|stability}} '''Stability''' can refer to: *Aircraft flight [[Stability (aircraft)]] *In atmospheric fluid dynamics, [[Air pollution dispersion terminology#The Pasquill atmospheric stability|atmospheric stability]], a measure of the turbulence in the ambient atmosphere *In atmospheric thermodynamics, atmospheric stability, a measure of buoyancy *[[BIBO stability]] (Bounded Input, Bounded Output stability), in signal processing and control theory, part of electrical engineering *[[Directional stability]], and the tendency for a body moving with respect to a medium to point in the direction of motion. In the context of arrows, darts, rockets and missiles this is also known as 'weathercock stability'. *[[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 conditions (watercraft)|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]] *[[Stability (computer software)]], the degree to which software can be run over periods of time without crashing or otherwise malfunctioning. *''[[The Stability E.P.]]'', a 2002 three song EP by Death Cab for Cutie *[[Network stability]], the tendency of maximum delay and backlog in a network to grow indefinitely over time or to stay bounded '''See also''': *[[Stable (disambiguation)]] *[[Homeostasis]] *[[Equilibrium (disambiguation)]] *[[Balance]] *[[Instability]] *[[Fault-tolerant system]] *[[Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics]] {{mathdab}} [[ar:مفهوم الاستقرار]] [[cs:Stabilita]] [[de:Stabilität]] [[es:Estabilidad]] [[fr:Stabilité]] [[nl:Stabiliteit]] [[ru:Устойчивость]] [[zh:穩定性]]