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metastabil

German, adjective[metaʃtaˈbiːl]

metastabil is spelled M-E-T-A-S-T-A-B-I-L (10 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written German, the 412,295th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Metastabil is a German adjective meaning “metastable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “beschreibt ein System, das bei kleinen Störungen stabil bleibt, bei größeren Störungen aber instabil wird und…”.

What does metastabil mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    metastable

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. beschreibt ein System, das bei kleinen Störungen stabil bleibt, bei größeren Störungen aber instabil wird und in einen anderen (stabilen) Zustand übergeht

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of metastabil

  • metastabiler masculine nominative singular
  • metastabile feminine nominative singular
  • metastabiles neuter nominative singular
  • metastabilen genitive masculine singular
  • metastabilem dative masculine singular
  • der metastabile definite includes-article masculine
  • die metastabile definite feminine includes-article
  • das metastabile definite includes-article neuter
  • die metastabilen definite includes-article nominative
  • des metastabilen definite genitive includes-article
  • der metastabilen definite feminine genitive
  • dem metastabilen dative definite includes-article
  • den metastabilen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce metastabil?

  • [metaʃtaˈbiːl]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to metastabil

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is metastabil in German?

metastabil appears about once in every 47 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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