1A thing used to keep something steady or stable.

1. 1.1 The horizontal tailplane of an aircraft.
   （飞机的）水平尾翼，水平安定面
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   • The stabiliser, the horizontal surface on the tailplane, is jammed.
   • The center fin was a fixed surface, extending vertically above the stabilizer at the center line of the airplane.
   • Check them the same way you did the ailerons: Push up on the elevator spar and see if there's any vertical movement relative to the stabilizer.
   • Assembled from various stabilizers, wing sections, nose cones, pipes, fuselage chunks, and other random parts, all held tenuously in place by an improvised web of twisted wire, the piece is a monument of stored energy.
   • They were shaped like bowties from the frontal view, with a compartment for the pilot where the knot would be, and large wings attached to the cockpit by stabilizers.
   • Alphonse Penaud established the practice of setting the horizontal stabiliser at a negative angle of incidence relative to the wing chord, which provides longitudinal balance to an aircraft.
   • Instead of putting fittings and turnbuckles on the streamlined tie-rod, he bent it and welded it to the spar of the stabilizer.
   • McCarthy had managed to get out, though he broke his leg presumably by hitting the rear stabilizer on the way out.
   • Personnel from No.6 Squadron removed the tail fin, stabilisers and other components for carriage in a cargo aircraft.
   • Each aircraft had its own modified stabilizer of different shape and configuration.
   • In the years between the two world wars, Sperry and his engineers developed the automatic pilot, the first airplane stabilizer, gyrostabilized bomb sights, and automatic-fire control systems.
   • The falling block could also have damaged a wing flap or vertical stabiliser, meaning the autopilot could not have kept the shuttle at the precise 38-degree angle necessary for the tiles, damaged or not, to do their job.
   • The right stabilizer, elevator, vertical fin and rudder, which were aligned with the path of the flames, were gone.
   • These fighters had large delta wings instead of the conventional wings and tail stabilizers.
   • A maintenance alert had been issued in August for the same model of airplane after attachment bolts for the vertical stabiliser were found loose on a plane during a scheduled inspection.
   • The reduced remnants of the second pair of wings are known as halteres, and seem to function as stabilizers or as airspeed detectors.
   • The horizontal tail was a single-unit stabilator rather than a conventional stabilizer plus a movable elevator.
   • For air transportation, the vertical tail fin pivots, the main rotor blades and the horizontal stabiliser are folded, and the mast-mounted sight, the IFF antenna and the lower wire cutter are removed.
   • The forklift boom left a dent and a hole 2.5 feet wide along the leading edge, three feet from the tip of the stabilizer.
   • IAI and Cyclone Aviation Products Ltd in Carmiel manufacture the ventral fins, rudders, horizontal stabilisers and engine access doors.
2. 1.2 A gyroscopic device used to reduce the rolling of a ship.
   （船舶的）减晃装置
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   • All large passenger ships are equipped with stabilizers, and the ride usually is smooth.
   • Most if not all cruise ships have stabilizers, however many cruise ships are so big these days that you don't even know that you are at sea.
   • Bob turned off the invisibility and the stabilizers, which keep the ship from rolling away, off to conserve energy.
   • With its stabilizer removed, it sailed at high speed on a zigzag course, thus reducing the chance of accurate U-boat targeting.
   • She had many comforts compared with older vessels, including stabilisers to reduce rolling in rough seas.
   • The ship lost its sonar dome and the starboard stabiliser in the grounding.
   • There are no bilge keels, but stabilisation is achieved by a combination of fin stabilisers from Blohm and Voss and a controlled passive tank system supplied by Intering.
   • And having the aft thrusters working on the ship would be nice… working stabilizers would be even better.
   • The all-steel ship has stealth features, extra space for Task Group personnel, and fin stabilisers.
   • Summer and autumn coincide with the hurricane season, and although the big cruise ships have stabilisers, you probably want to be thinking of November through to May, when the weather's not at its best in Scotland.
   • Two rudders and two active fin stabilisers are installed for precision manoeuvring.
   • I never slept better feeling the pitch and roll as I lay down at night (no stabilizers in those days).
   • Active roll-damping fin stabilisers have been added for operation in high sea states.
   • If you are on a tight budget, consider installing a hydrofoil stabilizer on the lower unit of your outdrive or outboard.
   • You do also need to be mindful that while the diesel-electrically powered Patricia is very quiet, she's no large cruise ship with stabilisers, so expect a little movement when the sea's lumpy.
   • The accident happened when the stabilisers of a flat-bed lorry that had been lifting the container sunk into soft mud, causing it to topple over.
   • But today's ships are often such behemoth megaliners with such effective stabilizers that veteran cruisers are crestfallen to find they no longer are rocked to sleep by the gentle motion of the ocean.
3. 1.3stabilizersBritish A pair of small supporting wheels fitted on either side of the rear wheel of a child's bicycle.
   〈英〉（装在儿童自行车后轮两边的）稳定轮，保护轮
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   • These adult stabilisers will enable anyone of adult size to learn to ride a bicycle, they can also with help balancing problems but they are not intended to be used for people who are unable to balance.
   • But now experts are arguing that stabilisers, which for decades have been used to help children learn to cycle, could actually be hindering their progress, and they are launching an experiment to prove it.
4. 1.4 A financial mechanism that prevents unsettling fluctuation in an economic system.
   （减少波动的）经济稳定机制
   the role of taxes and public spending as automatic stabilizers in modern economies

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   • To make the proposed stabilisers automatic, they can be linked to GDP forecasts.
   • But now, as taxes are less progressive, unemployment insurance has been cut back, the minimum wage is so low, and welfare is restricted, automatic stabilizers are no longer providing as much stimulus.
   • The Reserve Bank is relaxed about that fiscal stimulus and believes that it will act as a stabiliser, given that economic growth is forecast to decline during the 2004-06 period.
   • There remains a place for traditional Keynesian countercyclical fiscal policy that operates through automatic stabilizers based on the system of progressive taxation and transfers.
   • Built-in, automatic stabilizers are preferable to the vagaries of the appropriations process in Congress.
   • Currently, it is up to Congress to enact discretionary fiscal policy, which would remain true even with an improvement in automatic stabilizers.
   • Economists call these cyclical fiscal boosts ‘automatic stabilizers.’
   • The currency board regime played up to some extent its intended role as an automatic stabilizer of the external accounts.
   • Minsky insisted that the existence of automatic fiscal stabilizers meant the difference between failed and successful capitalism.
   • This is the point where the game slips out of the hands of the stabilizers and hyperinflation and depression loom.
   • It is more likely that he would have applauded the Fed for its swift action, and then argued that the fiscal stimulus validated his notion of government as an economic stabilizer.
   • Finally, there is one idea that could destroy government's ability to make use of automatic stabilizers: the notion that there should be a balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
   • Capitalism requires built-in fiscal-policy stabilizers because business cycles are an inherent feature of capitalist economies.
   • Central banks are not only the economy's stabilizers, they are also its risk managers.
   • The advent of Keynesian economics in the post-Second World War period has seen taxation used as a tool of macro-economic policy with rates varied as a stabilizer against economic fluctuations.
   • Specifically, fiscal policy worked to moderate economic cycles through automatic stabilizers.
   • However, the dampening effect of automatic stabilizers on output fluctuations differs significantly across countries.
   • Hopefully in such circumstances the Government would at least allow the automatic stabilisers to operate.
   • The President's tax cut was well timed, and along with the automatic stabilizers, helped mitigate the recession.
   • It legitimated an active state to stabilise demand and maintain the economy close to full employment through the use of automatic stabilisers and high levels of public spending on welfare and defence programmes.

2A substance which prevents the breakdown of emulsions, especially in foods and paints.