different between stability vs haltere

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French stabilité, from Latin root of stabilitas (“firmness, steadfastness”), from stabilis (“steadfast, firm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??b?l?ti/
• Rhymes: -?l?ti

Noun

stability (countable and uncountable, plural stabilities)

1. The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.

   Antonym: instability

2. The tendency to recover from perturbations.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• halter

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (haltêres, “weights held in the hand to give an impetus in leaping”). Note that in the original Greek, there seems to have been no singular for ??????? (haltêres), and some authorities maintain that halteres is a plurale tantum, but in English entomological usage, haltere sometimes appears as a back-formation. Sometimes the singular halter is used instead, but this may lead to confusion with other, unrelated meanings of halter.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hælt??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?hælt??/
• plural halteres pronounced IPA^(key): /hæl?t??i?z/

Noun

haltere (plural halteres)

1. (entomology) A small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight.

Translations

Anagrams

• Leather, Tar Heel, Tarheel, leather, lethera

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• halter

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (haltêres, “a type of dumbbell used in Ancient Greece”).

Noun

haltere m (plural halteres)

1. dumbbell (a weight with two disks attached to a short bar)

   Synonym: peso

Derived terms

• halterofilia
• halterofilismo
• halterofilista

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hal?tere]

Noun

haltere f pl

1. indefinite plural of halter?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of halter?