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In naval architecture, instantaneous stability is a measure of how a vessel's buoyancy is distributed. Also known as In-Tact Stability. Naval architects design safe, useful or beautiful ships and boats for their clients. ... Vessel can refer to any of the following: Objects Vessel (French vaissel, from a rare Latin vascellum, diminuitive of vas, vase, or urn), a word of somewhat wide application for many objects, the meaning common to them being capacity to hold or contain something. ... your a smelly bum ratIn physics, buoyancy is an upward force on an object immersed in a fluid (i. ...

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Stability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (276 words)
	Instantaneous stability, or intact stability, a measure of how a vessel's buoyancy is distributed
	Directional stability, or the tendency for a body moving with respect to a medium to point in the direction of motion.
	Stable polynomial, a polynomial whose roots all lie in the open left half-plane or whose roots all lie in the open unit disk

Basics of Design Engineering - Electrical/Electronic - Power Supplies - Specifications (1246 words)
	Instantaneous output voltage is affected by the ripple present.
	Power-supply stability is the percent change of output voltage as a function of time.
	A stability figure is often stated for warm-up, based on a short time period, typically 20 min, as well as for long term, typically a 24-hr period.

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