| 释义 |
stabilizing, ppl. a.|ˈsteɪbɪlaɪzɪŋ|
[f. stabilize v. + -ing2.]
That stabilizes or gives stability; spec. in Aeronaut., that gives stability (to an aeroplane, etc.); that acts or may be used as a stabilizer.
1911Encycl. Sport I. 16/2 In the Voisin machine there are vertical panels in the main planes, which..automatically check these oscillations, and a stabilising box at the rear. Ibid. 17/2 No really satisfactory stabilising device has yet been invented. 1911Daily Mail 28 Oct. 5/7 A large stabilising vane fixed to the front of his aeroplane. 1935H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe I. xii. 137 The Arabs were poets, dreamers, fighters, traders; they were not politicians. Nor had they found in religion a stabilizing or unifying power. 1954P. Mason Ess. Racial Tension 141 Stabilizing devices are introduced to preserve the dominant position and genetic purity of the dominating race. 1960C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 18 For a rather rootless person like myself, there is something reassuring, if not stabilising, in the mere known existence of individual ancestors. 1981Sci. Amer. Feb. 36/3 The ability to monitor Russian missile-carrying submarines could..be considered stabilizing in that it deters surprise attack. |