Definition of Equilibrium

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Equilibrium

Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

A level position; a just poise or balance in respect to an object, so that it remains firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body.

A balancing of the mind between motives or reasons, with consequent indecision and doubt.

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Equilibrium Quotations

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
Jose Marti

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.
Friedrich August von Hayek

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
Jean Baudrillard

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.
Dmitri Mendeleev

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.
Ivan Pavlov

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
Rudolf Arnheim

Equilibrium Translations

equilibrium in Afrikaans is balans
equilibrium in Dutch is evenwichtstoestand, balans, evenwicht
equilibrium in Finnish is tasapaino
equilibrium in German is Gleichgewicht
equilibrium in Italian is equilibrio
equilibrium in Latin is pondera
equilibrium in Norwegian is likevekt
equilibrium in Spanish is equilibrio

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