Definition/Meaning of labile

• English - Adjective: labile ( comparative more labile , superlative most labile ) Liable to slip , err , fall , or apostatize . Apt or likely to change . 1603 , John Florio , translating Michel de Montaigne , Essays , II .12: Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding and labile . ( chemistry , of a compound or bond ) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed). Certain drugs can…
• English - Etymology: Borrowing from Latin lābilis ( “ apt to slip , transient ” ), from lābor, lābī ( “ slip; glide , flow ” ).
• English - External links: labile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913 labile in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co ., New York , 1911 labile at OneLook Dictionary Search
• English - Anagrams: alible Biella liable
• Danish - Adjective: labile definite singular of labil plural indefinite of labil plural definite of labil