stable entity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstableandentity
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stable
adjective
uk/ˈsteɪ.bəl/us/ˈsteɪ.bəl/
firmly fixed or not likely to move ...
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entity
noun[C]
uk/ˈen.tɪ.ti/us/ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
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(Definition ofstableandentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofstable entity
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A person is not a fixed,stableentity, but a fluctuating tide of responses.
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Through the example, one more fully appreciates the reality that conscious memory is not astableentityeither.
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Since nature only exists in full scale, imagination is required to project a change of scale and it occurs through relation to astableentity, our own body.
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Use of a generic thus implies that a category is a coherent,stableentity.
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Pts attempted to reform the government into astableentityby broadening the representation of many of the segments of society.
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For the rest of the 19th century the school was not astableentity.
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The molecule in isolation is astableentity, but when different molecules are brought together, some types of molecules are able to steal electrons from others, resulting in charge separation.
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He saw them as isolated chemical substances and as relatively stable entities of formations of chemical compounds and their reversible analysis.
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He assumed that certain chemical substances, all those listed in his table, were relatively stable entities.
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It promotes the fixing of conventions, the creation of stable entities that can be deployed across great distances.
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That is, we usually think of the world as composed of relatively stable entities (bodies, beings).
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