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Definition stable

Etymology 1

From Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, from Old French estable, from Latin stabulum (“stall, stand”).

Noun

stable (plural stables)

1. A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
2. (metonymically) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
3. (Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
4. (sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

Verb

stable (third-person singular simple present stables, present participle stabling, simple past and past participle stabled)

1. (transitive) to put or keep (an animal) in a stable.
2. (intransitive) to dwell in a stable.
3. (rail transport, transitive) to park (a rail vehicle)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin stabilis (itself from stare (“stand”) + -abilis (“able”))

Adjective

stable (comparative more stable, superlative most stable)

1. Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
2. (computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.
3. (computer science, of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.

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