stabile
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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
- His new stabile has only one curved surface out of many; yet it presents a fluid silhouette of restless arabesques.
- 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 .