The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change. / Mental balance.

plural of equilibrium

(economics) A condition where a market price is established through competition such that the amount of goods or services sought by buyers is equal to the amount of goods or services produced by sellers.

(nuclear physics) The situation of the quantity of a radioisotope remaining constant because it is produced (by decay of a parent isotope) at the same rate that it decays.

plural of secular equilibrium

Synonym of secular equilibrium

plural of radioactive equilibrium

(physics) the state of a system in which its energy distribution is such that all parts of the system have the same temperature and no heat flows

(physics) Any system in which the sum of the forces, and torque, on each particle of the system is zero; mechanical equilibrium. / (economics) A market in which demand and supply are the same.

Any equilibrium in which opposite changes occur simultaneously. / (chemistry) An equilibrium in which two reversible reactions occur at the same rate.