labile
adjective technical
liable to change; easily altered:
変化しやすい、柔軟な
e.g. persons whose blood pressure is more labile will carry an enhanced risk of heart attack
e.g. we may be the most labile culture in all history.
of or characterized by emotions that are easily aroused or freely expressed, and that tend to alter quickly and spontaneously; emotionally unstable:
e.g. mood seemed generally appropriate, but the patient was often labile.
Chemistry easily broken down or displaced:
《化学》不安定な
e.g. the breakage of labile bonds
e.g. in combination : a heat-labile protein.
DERIVATIVES
lability |lāˈbilədē, ləˈbilədē| noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense ‘liable to err or sin’): from late Latin labilis, from labi ‘to fall’.