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equilibrium

/ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uhm, ek-wuh-/US // ˌi kwəˈlɪb ri əm, ˌɛk wə- //UK // (ˌiːkwɪˈlɪbrɪəm) //

平衡,平衡点,平衡性,均衡

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural e·qui·lib·ri·ums, e·qui·lib·ri·a [ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uh, ek-wuh-]. /ˌi kwəˈlɪb ri ə, ˌɛk wə-/.

    • : a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces.
    • : equal balance between any powers, influences, etc.; equality of effect.
    • : mental or emotional balance; equanimity: The pressures of the situation caused her to lose her equilibrium.
    • : Chemistry. the condition existing when a chemical reaction and its reverse reaction proceed at equal rates.

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Examples

  • Go back to the basic ground-school diagram of the four forces—lift, weight, thrust and drag—that must be in equilibrium.

  • As the beads cooled, they weren’t in thermal equilibrium, meaning their locations in the potential energy landscape weren’t distributed in a manner that would allow a single temperature to describe them.

  • The first involves a basic blueprint strategy for the whole game, allowing it to reach a much faster equilibrium than its predecessor.

  • They believe that markets work best when supply and demand are allowed to find a natural equilibrium, with price acting as the referee.

  • So this sort of puts the onus on policymakers and funding agencies, and a sense of saying we need to change the equilibrium.

  • A tense, dynamic equilibrium between the U.S. and China seems more likely than a clear displacement of the former by the latter.

  • But how many of us, thus sunk in despair, have not been vaulted back to equilibrium by another look at Groundhog Day?

  • Since 1989, this arrangement has provided a workable degree of stability, but one based on an equilibrium of unstable elements.

  • Lebanese politics for more than a decade have been characterized by an equilibrium of unstable elements.

  • But by 2009, Aaron seemed to her to be regaining his equilibrium.

  • Industrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.

  • But the balanced forces once displaced would be seen constantly to come to an equilibrium at a new point.

  • It is a very simple plan, and will be perfectly tight; it is by restoring an equilibrium on both sides of the piston.

  • Michael, for sudden joy and excitement, was wellnigh thrown from his equilibrium.

  • The equilibrium valve is unchanged, except that the rack is taken out and a link put in.

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