Usually means: Lack of consistency or predictability.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word instability:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. instability: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. instability: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. instability: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. instability: Collins English Dictionary
  5. instability: Vocabulary.com
  6. Instability, instability: Wordnik
  7. instability: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. instability: Wiktionary
  9. instability: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. instability: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. instability: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. instability: Dictionary.com
  13. instability: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. instability: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Instability, The Instability: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Instability: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. instability: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. instability: Rhymezone
  19. Instability: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. instability: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. instability: Free Dictionary
  22. instability: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. instability: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Instability: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. instability: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instability: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. instability: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See instabilities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being unstable.
noun:  (physics, countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.

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