Labile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Open to change; adaptable: an emotionally labile person.
  • adj. Chemistry Constantly undergoing or likely to undergo change; unstable: a labile compound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
  • adj. Apt or likely to change.
  • adj. Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
  • adj. Liable or likely to change.
  • adj. Easily decomposed or inactivated when subjected to heat, radiation, or mildly acidic or alkaline conditions; -- of chemical compounds.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Unstable; liable to err, fall, or apostatize.
  • In medicine, noting a mode of application of electricity in which the active electrode is passed back and forth over the nerve or muscle to be acted upon: opposed in this sense to slabile.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown
  • adj. liable to change
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