Unstable vs Turbulent - What's the difference?
unstable | turbulent |
Having a strong tendency to change.
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Fickle.
Unpredictable.
(chemistry) Readily decomposable.
(physics) Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
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As adjectives the difference between unstable and turbulent
is that unstable is having a strong tendency to change while turbulent is violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.unstable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
Synonyms
* instable (rare) * (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsafe, unsteady, wobblyAntonyms
* stableAnagrams
*turbulent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}