sta|bile

sta|bile
sta|bile «STAY buhl, STAB uhl», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. having stability; stable.
2. Medicine. a) designating or having to do with treatment by electricity in which an electrode is kept stationary over the part treated. b) not affected by an ordinary amount of heat.
–n.
a stationary sculpture made of colored spheres, disks, and wires, or of large cut and bent sheets of metal.
[< Latin stabilis; see etym. under stable2 (Cf.stable)]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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