stabilizer

English

Alternative forms

• stabiliser (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

stabilize +‎ -er

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.
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

• gyroscopic stabilizer
• gyrostabilizer
• horizontal stabilizer
• mood stabilizer
• orbit-stabilizer theorem
• 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
• 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
• Polish: stabilizator 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 m

airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile

• Bulgarian: стабилизатор (bg) m (stabilizator)
• Finnish: vakain (fi), vakaaja (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krengningsstabilisator (no) m

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

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

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