instability

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The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.

Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc.

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a hormonal imbalance Source: Internet

1999 — A second era of political instability begins, starting with five different coalitions in less than nine months, and at least as many since then. Source: Internet

Additional features that come with the brand are the capability of shielding dust and collecting into filters, temperature sensors and special memory function to fit for frequent power instability regions and reminders. Source: Internet

“A close and contested outcome with a drawn-out period of rancour and instability would be bad news for markets,” said Trevor Greetham, of Royal London Asset Management. Source: Internet

A key difficulty in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values. Source: Internet

Addressing an international conference marking 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees in the country, he said Pakistan seeks peace in Afghanistan and instability in the war-torn neighbouring country was not in its interest. Source: Internet

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