Stability
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'''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]]
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