stationary state
Americannoun
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Markets don’t work well in a stationary state; they are like sharks, either moving or dead.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2019
When a black hole is created by gravitational collapse, it rapidly settles down to a stationary state, which is characterized by only three parameters: the mass, the angular momentum, and the electric charge.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2016
It would therefore not be too long before it settled down to a stationary state.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state, because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
All improvements, therefore, in the production of almost any commodity tend in some degree to widen the interval which has to be passed before arriving at the stationary state.
From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart
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