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- noun Plural form of
equilibrium .
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Examples
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Yet since the lack of fluid information exists or even more importantly its analysis thus there are dis-equilibriums in stock prices, such as those of Worldcom, Enron, Adelphia, etc.
Resisting Efficient Markets, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And because we don't think about incentives, we end up with Nash equilibriums that favor the powerful and leave the weak at a disadvantage, whether they're in the public or private sector.
Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum – Faith and focus 2009
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More and more exploration and field research will serve to provide information critical to the understanding of the state of health of the natural processes of the planet, as well as aid in the monitoring and maintaining of environmental equilibriums, providing analytical evidence to help pinpoint where natural buffers and balances might have broken down, effecting ecological landscapes.
Lorie Karnath: Technology Changing Exploration's Paradigm Lorie Karnath 2011
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What is clear, is that returning to industrial-age conditions and equilibriums is chimerical.
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Here insurrection touches on not only the equilibriums of north Africa and the Middle East but also the global system of economic governance.
Arabs are democracy's new pioneers | Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 2011
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The boreal forest ecosystems will be a major sink for atmospheric carbon, once new equilibriums between carbon fixation and decomposition of soil organic matter have been reached.
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In a nutshell, when a low frequency event (sand being added to the system) occurs within a system in which relaxation process (i.e., avalaches, tectonic plate slips) are high-frequency, then what will be observed is stable equilibriums punctuated by major catastrophes.
Now on SSRN: Law, War, and the History of Time Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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Furthermore, such variability is likely to become the norm as ecosystems undergo shifts, at least until new equilibriums are established.
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Because the changes wrought by climate change are likely to be protracted and depend in large part upon local ecological circumstances and the nature of the biota present, new equilibriums are unlikely to be quickly established.
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But we are a minority–the vast majority of our people regard the temporary equilibriums of our society and world as eternally functional parts.
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