1.  From time to time various members of this population will move from a stable state to having a special status.

2.  It produces a state of homeostasis, a mechanism which enables a system to remain in a stable state through time.

3.  Species, then, are real, even if they do not represent different stable states of matter.

4.  This occurs when the disturbance is dissipated by direct return to a strongly stable state.

5.  The cusp catastrophe, in which the stable states are success and failure, has two control factors and three dimensions.

6.  In the melt, polymers normally attain a state of maximum entropy consistent with a stable state of minimum free energy.

7.  It must have reached thermodynamic equilibrium over the years, and represents the most stable state for this composition.