The difference between Equilibrium and Stasis

When used as nouns, equilibrium means the condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change, whereas stasis means a slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.

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  1. Equilibrium as a noun:

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

  2. Equilibrium as a noun (physics):

    The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.

  3. Equilibrium as a noun (chemistry):

    The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.

  4. Equilibrium as a noun:

    Mental balance.

  1. Stasis as a noun (pathology):

    A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.

  2. Stasis as a noun:

    Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

    Examples:

    "His company was sized for growth, not stasis."

  3. Stasis as a noun (scifi):

    A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.

  4. Stasis as a noun:

    One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

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