equilibrium

Other forms of equilibrium

plural

equilibria

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about equilibrium

What does equilibrium mean?

equilibrium means "a stable situation in which forces cancel one another". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in equilibrium?

equilibrium has 5 syllables: eq-ui-lib-ri-um. The stress falls on "lib". In IPA it is /ˌikwəˈlɪbɹiəm/.

What is another word for equilibrium?

Close synonyms include chemical equilibrium, balance, equipoise, counterbalance, labyrinthine sense. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of equilibrium?

The recorded antonyms are disequilibrium.

Is equilibrium a common word?

equilibrium is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with equilibrium?

1 word rhymes with equilibrium. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.