Usually means: Maintains consistency under varying conditions.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word stable:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stable: Merriam-Webster
  3. stable, stable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stable, stable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stable, stable: Wordnik
  8. stable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stable: Wiktionary
  10. stable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stable: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stable: Dictionary.com
  14. stable (adj.), stable (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stable (disambiguation), Stable (professional wrestling), Stable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stable: Rhymezone
  20. stable, stable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stable: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Stable: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. Stable (horse), Stable (horses), stable: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stable (Debian), Stable (horse), Stable (horses), stable: Encyclopedia
  2. stable: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stable: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Stable (horse), Stable (horses), stable: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STABLE: Acronym Finder
  2. stable: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stable: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  2. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  3. -stable, stable, stable, stable: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stable, stable: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stable: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See stabled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
noun:  (metonymically) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
noun:  (Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
noun:  (sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
noun:  (professional wrestling) A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.
noun:  (slang) A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.
noun:  A group of people who are looked after, mentored, or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.
noun:  A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array.
verb:  (transitive) To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
verb:  (intransitive) To dwell in a stable.
verb:  (rail transport, transitive) To park (a rail vehicle).
adjective:  Relatively unchanging, steady, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
adjective:  (computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
adjective:  (computer science, of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.
adjective:  (commutative algebra, of a filtration (M_n) of a module M over a ring with respect to an ideal (here I but often a,m,p etc.) of that ring) Eventually satisfying the identity IM_n=M_n+1.

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