Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metastability

1 sense of metastability

Sense 1
metastability -- (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)
       => constancy, stability -- (the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds")