Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The word stability has a number of technical meanings, all related to the common meaning of the word. In mechanics, stability characterizes the result of small perturbations to a system in mechanical equilibrium. In system analysis and signal processing, stability means either: BIBO (Bounded Input, Bounded Output) stability Lyapunov stability In control theory, stability characterizes the reaction of a dynamic system to external influences. In numerical analysis, stability refers to how well an algorithm performs with regard to error in the numerical results: see numerical stability. In everyday conversation about computers, stability refers to the tendency or otherwise of a system or program to crash. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix the link, so that it points to the appropriate page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.