English-French translations for metastable

• métastable
  Or, la biodiversité est une condition préalable à l'existence de l'écosystème planétaire au stade métastable que nous connaissons, et qui permet l'existence de notre civilisation. Biodiversity is a defining precondition for the existence of the planetary ecosystem in the metastable state which we know and which enables the existence of our own civilisation.

Definition of metastable

• Of or pertaining to a physical or chemical state that is relatively long-lived, but may decay to a lower energy state when slightly perturbed or through a quantum transition
• A particle, etc. in the metastable state

Related words

• metastasis
• metastasize
• metastability
• metastatic
• antimetastasis
• genometastasis
• metastannate
• Metastasian
• metastannic