Look up: stabilizer

1. Stabilizer
   The vertical strips of cloth depending from the end cells of the canopy. Stabilizers improve the canopy's ability to fly straight ahead and enhance efficiency by reducing tip vortices
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2. stabilizer
   [n] - a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state 2. [n] - airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft 3. [n] - a device for making something stable
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3. stabilizer
   1. a tool placed on a drill collar near the bit that is used, depending on where it is placed, either to maintain a particular hole angle or to change the angle by controlling the location of the contact point between the hole and the collars. See packed-hole assembly. 2. a vessel in which hydrocarbon vapors are separated from liquids. 3. a fractionation system that reduces the vapor pressure so that the resulting liquid is less volatile.
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4. stabilizer
   A substance that makes a mixture more stable. Antioxidants and antiozonants are examples of stabilizers; stabilizers are added to paints to prevent the components of the mixture from separating over time.
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5. Stabilizer
   A stabilizer is a substance added to another substance to prevent an alteration of its physical state.
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6. stabilizer
   substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff and include also substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an exis...
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7. Stabilizer
   A processing solution used in colour processing to make the dyes produced by development more stables. Alternative to fixer where permanence is not required. Used in automatic processing machines and can now provide prints that will not deteriorate noticeably over many months if kept away from strong light.
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8. stabilizer
   stabiliser noun a device for making something stable
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9. stabilizer
   noun a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state
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10. stabilizer
    (from the article `emulsifier`) ...additives that encourage the suspension of one liquid in another, as in the mixture of oil and water in margarine, shortening, ice cream, and ... Stabilizers and thickeners have many functions in foods. Most stabilizing and thickening agents are polysaccharides, such as starches or gums, or ... The ...
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11. stabilizer
    (from the article `tank`) After World War II an increasing number of tanks were fitted with stabilized gun controls to enable them to fire more accurately on the move (i.e., ...
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12. stabilizer
    stabilizer Related word families intertwined with 'to place, placing, to put; to add; to stay; to attach' word units: fix-; pon-; prosth-; the-, thes-.
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13. stabilizer
    Type: Term Pronunciation: stā′bi-līz′ĕr Definitions: 1. That which provides or maintains stability. 2. An agent that retards the effect of an accelerator, thus preserving a chemical equilibrium. 3. A part possessing the quality of rigidity or creating rigidity when added to another part.
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14. Stabilizer
    [chemistry] In chemistry a stabilizer is a chemical which tends to inhibit the reaction between two or more other chemicals{fact|date=December 2010}. It can be thought of as the antonym to a catalyst. The term can also refer to a chemical that inhibits separation of suspensions, emulsions, a...
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15. Stabilizer
    [ship] Ship stabilizers are fins mounted beneath the waterline and emerging laterally. In contemporary vessels, they may be gyroscopically controlled active fins, which have the capacity to change their angle of attack to counteract roll caused by wind or waves acting on the ship. The bilge ...
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16. Stabilizer
    [aircraft] In aviation, a stabilizer provides stability when the aircraft is flying straight, and the airfoil of the horizontal stabilizer balances the forces acting on the aircraft. While the vertical stabilizer and rudder are always placed on the empennage (the rear of the aircraft or tail...
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17. Stabilizer
    A processing solution used in colour processing to make the dyes produced by development more stables
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18. stabilizer
    A weight mounted on a bow to minimize undesirable torque of the bow string upon release
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19. stabilizer
    a substance used in the formulation of some plastics to assist in maintaining the properties of the material at or near their initial values during processing and service life
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20. stabilizer
    material, typically a metal, in electrical and/or thermal contact with a superconductor, which establishes thermal contact to the coolant and/or acts as an electrical shunt NOTE - Materials with high specific heat are also used.
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21. stabilizer
    a device for maintaining constant X-ray tube voltage or current
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22. Stabilizer
    A substance used in the formulation of plastics to help maintaining the properties of the material during processing and service life.
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23. stabilizer
    stabilizer: see airplane.
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24. stabilizer
    One of a pair of fins fitted to the sides of a ship, especially one governed automatically by a gyroscope mechanism, designed to reduce side-to-side rolling of the ship in rough weather
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25. stabilizer
    a device on most all cruise vessels, to reduce pitch and roll when at sea
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