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• n  a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support
• s  (chemistry, physics, biology) resistant to change
• s  not able or intended to be moved

• Viewed from a certain angle, the Alexander Calder--designed stabile resembles an elephant; viewed from any angle, an Ellie is the most prestigious prize that a magazine can win.
• Last week his bobbing mobile The Ghost and his sprawling stabile Guillotine for Eight met like stalactite and stalagmite in the great rotunda of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum .
• His new stabile has only one curved surface out of many; yet it presents a fluid silhouette of restless arabesques.

• immovable
• immoveable
• unmovable

• mobile

News & Articles

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• Gas Prices Stay Low in Mississippi
  Petroleum speculators attribute Mississippi's below-average gas prices, like the ones found at Love's Truck Stop on Hwy. 80 in Pearl, to stabile production from refineries.
  June 10, 2013 - Jackson Free Press

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Catholic Online
  Pope Benedict asked the leaders of governments around the world to do everything possible to achieve a cease-fire and "begin building, through dialogue, a lasting and stabile coexistence among all the peoples of the Middle East."
• Bert van Marwijk in guardian.co.uk
  We have become a more stabile team in which players are more able to translate the plans of the technical staff on the pitchVan Marwijk told reporters.