stabilizer

English

Alternative forms

• stabiliser (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *staējō

Proto-Italic *staēō

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Proto-Italic *staðlis?

Latin stabilislbor.

Old French estable

Anglo-Norman stabelbor.

Middle English stable

English stable

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English stabilize

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English stabilizer

From stabilize + -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

stabilizer (plural stabilizers) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. Any person or thing that brings stability.
   1. Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
   2. An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.

      Synonym: training wheel

   3. A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
   4. An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
   5. (textiles) A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
   6. (computing) A mechanical component that supports a large key on a keyboard (such as the space bar) and prevents it from wobbling or tilting.
2. (mathematics) For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.

Derived terms

• autostabilizer
• gyroscopic stabilizer
• gyrostabilizer
• horizontal stabilizer
• mood stabilizer
• orbit-stabilizer theorem
• osmostabilizer
• photostabilizer
• phytostabilizer
• stabilizer subgroup
• vertical stabilizer

Translations

substance added to something in order to stabilize it

• Bulgarian: стабилизатор (bg) m (stabilizator)
• Catalan: estabilitzador m
• Czech: stabilizátor m
• Dutch: stabilisator (nl) m
• Finnish: stabilointiaine, stabilaattori, vakaute
• French: stabilisateur (fr) m
• Galician: estabilizador m
• German: Stabilisator (de) m
• Greek: σταθεροποιητής (el) ? (statheropoiitís)
• Irish: cobhsaitheoir m
• Italian: stabilizzatore (it) m
• Kazakh: тұрақтандырғыш (turaqtandırğıš)
• Polish: stabilizator (pl) m
• Portuguese: estabilizador (pt) m
• Spanish: estabilizador (es) m
• Turkish: dengeleyici (tr), stabilizatör (tr)
• Ukrainian: стабіліза́тор m (stabilizátor)

training wheels on child's bicycle

• Danish: støttehjul (da) n
• Finnish: apupyörät pl
• French: roulettes f pl
• Irish: cobhsaitheoir m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: støttehjul n

• Portuguese: rodinha f
• Swedish: stödhjul (sv) n
• Turkish: denge tekeri, denge tekerleği
• Ukrainian: страхувальні колеса n pl (straxuvalʹni kolesa)

fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship

• Finnish: evävakain, evävakaaja
• Polish: stabilizator (pl) m

airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile

• Bulgarian: стабилизатор (bg) m (stabilizator)
• Finnish: vakain (fi), vakaaja (fi)
• French: stabilisateur (fr) m
• Kazakh: тұрақтандырғыш (turaqtandırğıš)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krengningsstabilisator (no) m

• Tamil: நிலைப்படுத்தி (nilaippaṭutti)

set of group elements fixing an element of a set operated on by the group

• Finnish: stabilisaattori
• German: Stabilisator (de) m

Anagrams

• tribalizes