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- Dictionarysteady/ˈstɛdi/
adjective
- 1. firmly fixed, supported, or balanced; not shaking or moving: "the lighter the camera, the harder it is to hold steady" Similar Opposite
- 2. regular, even, and continuous in development, frequency, or intensity: "a steady decline in the national birth rate" Similar Opposite
verb
- 1. make or become steady: "I took a deep breath to steady my nerves" Similar
exclamation
- 1. used as a warning to someone to keep calm or take care: "Steady now! We don't want you hurting yourself"
noun
- 1. a person's regular boyfriend or girlfriend: informal "his steady chucked him two weeks ago"
- 2. a strut for stabilizing a caravan or other vehicle when stationary.
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Sep 2, 2024 · Steady as she goes keep on with the same careful progress; in nautical parlance, steady is the instruction to the helmsman to keep the ship on the same course. steady state an unvarying condition in a physical process, especially as in the theory that the universe is eternal and maintained by constant creation of matter.
Sep 9, 2024 · Any system in dynamic equilibrium tends to reach a steady state, a balance that resists outside forces of change. When such a system is disturbed, built-in regulatory devices respond to the departures to establish a new balance; such a process is one of feedback control.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Homeostasis is any self-regulating process by which an organism tends to maintain stability while adjusting to conditions that are best for its sur...
- Body temperature control in humans is one of the most familiar examples of homeostasis. Normal body temperature hovers around 37 °C (98.6 °F), but...
- A familiar example of homeostatic regulation in a mechanical system is the action of a thermostat, a machine that regulates room temperature. At th...
- The concept of homeostasis has also been used in studies of ecosystems. Canadian-born American ecologist Robert MacArthur first proposed in 1955 th...
3 days ago · In biology, homeostasis (British also homoeostasis; / h ɒ m i oʊ ˈ s t eɪ s ɪ s,-m i ə-/) is the state of steady internal physical and chemical conditions maintained by living systems. [1]
6 days ago · In steady state (the fully charged state of the capacitor), the current through the capacitor becomes zero. The sinusoidal steady-state analysis is a key technique in electrical engineering, specifically used to find how electric circuits respond to sinusoidal AC (alternating current) signals.
Sep 10, 2024 · Thermodynamics, science of the relationship between heat, work, temperature, and energy. Thermodynamics deals with the transfer of energy from one place to another and from one form to another. The key concept is that heat is a form of energy corresponding to a definite amount of mechanical work.
6 days ago · work, in physics, measure of energy transfer that occurs when an object is moved over a distance by an external force at least part of which is applied in the direction of the displacement.
Sep 19, 2024 · Underlying trend data. The trend unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1 per cent for August. In trend terms, employment grew by around 40,000 people (0.3 per cent), which was faster than the 20-year pre-pandemic average (0.2 per cent). Hours worked grew 0.2 per cent for August, slightly slower than the growth in employment.
