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- adjective Having multiple
states ofstability (orinstability )
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Examples
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He explained to us his philosophy of "multistable" - the pursuit of multiple artistic talents.
Jim Luce: French Contemporary Artist and Legend CharlElie Couture in New York City Jim Luce 2010
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He explained to us his philosophy of "multistable" - the pursuit of multiple artistic talents.
Jim Luce: French Contemporary Artist and Legend CharlElie Couture in New York City 2010
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He explained to us his philosophy of "multistable" - the pursuit of multiple artistic talents.
Jim Luce: French Contemporary Artist and Legend CharlElie Couture in New York City 2010
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Chaotic complex, multistable systems may appear ergodic for a while, but then their lack of ergodicity is revealed by an unexpected change in state, such as the emergence of a novel flow.
Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007
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The climate is a chaotic, multistable, driven, optimally turbulent terawatt scale heat engine, with a host of both known and unknown forcings, natural oscillations, and feedbacks.
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My own guess is that the climate tends to be multistable, rather than random … your mileage may vary …
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Children, please, does “multistable” mean nothing to you? bender
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Since HW try to make the connection between discrete state-switching & the multistable Lorenz attractor, I may as well ask my naive question about time-scale compatibility of the two works.
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Whether temperatures rise in that amount in the context of an over-driven, governed, tera-watt scale, constructal, multistable heat engine with a large number of known and unknown forcings and feedbacks is a very different question, one where theory is not much help.
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Bistable, tristable and multistable switching of well-defined structures of molecular alignment is of special interest for all of these applications.
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