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n.; pl. Instabilities [ L. instabilitas: cf. F. instabilité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or condition of being unstable; lack of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc. Addison.

Syn. -- Inconstancy; fickleness; changeableness; wavering; unsteadiness; unstableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. instabilis: cf. F. instable. See In- not, and Stable, a., and cf. Unstable. ] Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Instability; unstableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Installed p. pr. & vb. n. Installing. ] [ F. installer, LL. installare, fr. pref. in- in + OHG. stal a place, stall, G. stall, akin to E. stall: cf. It. installare. See Stall. ] [ Written also instal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place. [ 1913 Webster ]

She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unworthily
Thou wast installed in that high degree. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. installation, LL. installatio: cf. It. installazione. See Install. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of installing; as, the installation of the air conditioner took half an hour.
Syn. -- installing, setting up. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Hence: the act of installing (a person) or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the election, the bishop gives a mandate for his installation. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, sometimes including the buildings and gorounds on which they are located, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.; as, our installation in Baton Rouge can produce ten thousand gallons a day; we should move our drying installation from building A to building B. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. (Mil.) The whole of a military base, post, camp, outpost, etc., constructed and operated for support of military operations. [ PJC ]

n. 1. the act of installing something (as equipment).
Syn. -- installation, setting up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act of installing; installation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The seat in which one is placed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . .
Each fair installment, coat, and several crest
With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times; that portion of a debt payed back in any one payment; as, the next installment is due January first. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times being often definitely stipulated. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. a part of a broadcast serial. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- episode. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. a part of a published serial. [ wns=2 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. See Enstamp. [ 1913 Webster ]