EGAVE

labile

About 0.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
  2. adjective Apt or likely to change.
  3. adjective Of a compound or bond, kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
    Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
  4. adjective Of a verb, able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.

Similar words

unstable adaptable fragile component volatile evolutionarily enterotoxin lapsible lapsable errable

Often followed by

and factor to in than enterotoxin organic hypertension or

Word family

labilities lability

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