Both Uses of
equilibrium
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Our economy is in a state of extremely precarious equilibrium.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- The young men had talked-through an exhausting trip by government plane, then a clammy ride in a government car-about science, emergencies, social equilibriums and the need of secrecy, till he knew less than he had known at the start; he noticed only that two words kept recurring in their jabber, which had also appeared in the text of the invitation, two words that had an ominous sound when involving an unknown issue: the demands for his "loyalty" and "co-operation."†
Chpt 3.3
Definition:
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(equilibrium) a stable situation in which forces are in balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or (more rarely) emotional balance