equilibrium

Plural: equilibria, equilibriums

Noun

• a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
• a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates
• equality of distribution
• a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head
• The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
• Mental balance.
• The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
• The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.

Synonyms

balance, chemical equilibrium, counterbalance, equipoise, labyrinthine sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium, vestibular sense, sanity, stability

Antonyms

disequilibrium, imbalance, insanity, instability, madness, non-equilibrium

Related Words

equilibrate, equilibrioception, equilibrize, equivalence