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What does labile mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word labile? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
  2. Apt or likely to change.
  3. (chemistry) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
  4. (linguistics) Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
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This is consistent with perceptions that lipids are more labile than nonlipids.
However, water stress interacting with CO2 enhanced the shift of the carbon from the labile pool to recalcitrant pool.
Objectively, he is emotionally labile and becomes jittery and nervous when discussing the ring.
A 44-year-old man was seen because his generally stable and easily controlled hypertension had recently become labile.
Only emotionally labile noncompliance was a significant predictor of peer rejection.
She may be labile and inconsistent, expressing strong emotions of various types without any solid reason.

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