equilibrium

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equilibrium

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• æquilibrium (过时)

源自拉丁語 aequilībrium，源自aequus (“相等”) + lībra (“平衡”)。^[1]

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equilibrium (複數 equilibriums 或 equilibria)

1. 平衡，均衡
   • Template:RQ:Miller Gardeners Dictionary
   • 1999, The Matrix, Agent Smith speech

     Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.

   近義詞：balance、stability

   反義詞：disequilibrium、imbalance、instability

2. 心理平衡，平静

   近義詞：sanity

   反義詞：insanity、instability、madness

3. (化學) 化学平衡
4. (物理學) 平衡
   • 1943 May and June, “Notes and News: Effective Locomotive "Ack-Ack" Fire”, 出自 Railway Magazine，第 180 頁:

     It now appears that the locomotive did not blow up, as was commonly stated at the time, but that the aeroplane flew so low as to come into contact with the dome of the engine, knocking it off. It was the combination of the impact and the uprush of steam that so disturbed the equilibrium of the raider as to cause it to crash.

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   反義詞：disequilibrium、non-equilibrium

• (物理)： stasis

• (物理)： heat death

• equilibrate
• equilibrize