Usually means: Temporarily stable, prone to change.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. metastable: Merriam-Webster
  2. metastable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metastable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metastable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metastable: Vocabulary.com
  6. metastable: Wordnik
  7. metastable: Wiktionary
  8. metastable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. metastable: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. metastable: Dictionary.com
  11. Metastable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. metastable: Rhymezone
  13. metastable: FreeDictionary.org
  14. metastable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. metastable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metastable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. metastable: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. metastable (chemical species): PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  2. Metastable: Extragalactic Astronomy

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metastable)

adjective:  (physics, chemistry) Of or pertaining to a physical or chemical state that is relatively long-lived, but may decay to a lower energy state when slightly perturbed or through a quantum transition.
noun:  A particle, etc. in the metastable state.

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