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Meanings of unstable equilibrium in English

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Usage of unstable equilibrium in English
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It is indeed an unstable equilibrium, hard to maintain and easily upset.
The New World of Islam
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A keystone disturbance suggests an unstable equilibrium of some description or another.
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This condition was one of unstable equilibrium which could not long continue.
The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 / Third Edition
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An example of unstable equilibrium is shown in the accompanying sketch.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
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This unstable equilibrium rests upon scales that are in your hands.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, ...
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The rank of poets is a point of very unstable equilibrium.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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This would produce a condition of unstable equilibrium, with great potentiality for movement.
Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
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Trollope is equally successful with some other social problems and characters of unstable equilibrium.
Studies in Early Victorian Literature
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Life is in a state of unstable equilibrium, and a touch may move it.
The Unfolding Life / A Study of Development with Reference to Re...
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It keeps the soul in a state of unstable equilibrium, and defeats its own ends.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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Their intellects were in a state of unstable equilibrium.
Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913
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All his weight was on one foot, and he was in a state of unstable equilibrium.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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The condition now rapidly approaches unstable equilibrium, B C tending to rise, A B to descend.
Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
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Life, which elsewhere is a condition of unstable equilibrium, there is of a fatally stable kind.
The Soul of the Far East
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Poor Susan was in the state of unstable equilibrium which the least touch upsets, and fell to crying.
The Guardian Angel
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The modern man is in unstable equilibrium, and whatever upsets that equilibrium sends him back through the ages.
The Psychology of Nations / A Contribution to the Philosophy of ...
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