labile.
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Meaning & usage
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Apt or likely to change.
Of a compound or bond, kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.
Of a verb, able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b-der.? Latin lābor Proto-Indo-European *-elis Proto-Italic *-elis Latin -ilis Latin lābilisbor. Middle French labilebor. English labile Borrowed from Middle French labile, borrowed from Latin lābilis (“slipping, transitent”).
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