Stabilizer, stabiliser, stabilisation or stabilization may refer to:

Chemistry and food processing

Stabilizer (chemistry) In industrial chemistry, a stabilizer or stabiliser is a chemical that is used to prevent degradation. File:BigPhosphite31570-04-4.png, Tris(2,4-di-tert-butylphenyl)phosphite is a widely used stabilizer in polymers. File:HALSgeneric.png, Partial ...

, a substance added to prevent unwanted change in state of another substance **

Polymer stabilizers Polymer stabilizers (British: polymer stabilisers) are chemical additives which may be added to polymeric materials, such as plastics and rubbers, to inhibit or retard their degradation. Common polymer degradation processes include oxidation, UV- ...

are stabilizers used specifically is plastic or other polymers * Stabilizer (food), a type of food additive * Wood stabilization, a wood preservation process to prevent distortion caused by moisture *

Clarification and stabilization of wine In winemaking, clarification and stabilization are the processes by which insoluble matter suspended in the wine is removed before bottling. This matter may include dead yeast cells ( lees), bacteria, tartrates, proteins, pectins, various tannin ...

Mathematics

* Stabilization (category theory) * Stabilizer subgroup

Technology

* Stabilizer (aircraft), surfaces to help keep aircraft under control. Includes: **

Vertical stabilizer A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft. The term is commonly applied to the assembly of both this fixed surface and one or more movable rudders hinged to it. Their role is to provide control, s ...

of airplanes **

Tailplane A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabiliser, is a small lifting surface located on the tail (empennage) behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing aircraft as well as other non-fixed-wing aircraft such as helicopters and gyropla ...

or horizontal stabilizer * Stabilizer (ship), fins on ships to counteract roll * Stabiliser, another name for bicycle

training wheels Training wheels (or stabilisers in British English and Hiberno-English) are an additional wheel or wheels mounted parallel to the rear wheel of a bicycle that assist learners until they have developed a usable sense of balance on the bicycle. Ty ...

* Stabilizers, the extendable legs mounted on a land vehicle which are folded out when stabilization is required; see

Outrigger An outrigger is a projecting structure on a boat, with specific meaning depending on types of vessel. Outriggers may also refer to legs on a wheeled vehicle that are folded out when it needs stabilization, for example on a crane that lifts ...

Drilling stabilizer {{Short description, Part of a borehole drill string assembly A drilling stabilizer is a piece of downhole equipment used in the bottom hole assembly (BHA) of a drill string. It mechanically stabilizes the BHA in the borehole in order to avoid unin ...

, part of the bottom hole assembly in oil drilling *

Gyroscopic stabilizer (disambiguation) A Gyroscopic stabilizer is a control system that reduces tilting movement of a ship or aircraft. It senses orientation using a small gyroscope, and counteracts rotation by adjusting control surfaces or by applying force to a large gyroscope. It can ...

, on ships and aircraft *

Gun stabilizer A gun stabilizer is a device that facilitates aiming an artillery piece by compensating for the motion of the platform on which it is mounted. For naval applications see ship gun fire-control system. Moving land-based systems tend to require more s ...

, or gyrostabilizer, a device that helps a moving tank's gunner to aim the gun *

Sway bar An anti-roll bar (roll bar, anti-sway bar, sway bar, stabilizer bar) is a part of many automobile suspensions that helps reduce the body roll of a vehicle during fast cornering or over road irregularities. It connects opposite (left/right) whee ...

, a bar linking the two sides of an automotive suspension *

Stabilization pond Waste stabilization ponds (WSPs or stabilization ponds or waste stabilization lagoons) are ponds designed and built for wastewater treatment to reduce the organic content and remove pathogens from wastewater. They are man-made depressions confin ...

, a way of stabilizing wastewater * Voltage stabilizer, a system designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage

Photography

Camera stabilizer A camera stabilizer, or camera–stabilizing mount, is a device designed to hold a camera in a manner that prevents or compensates for unwanted camera movement, such as " camera shake". For small hand-held cameras, a harness or contoured fr ...

, an external mechanical device to stabilize the camera as a whole * Image stabilization, software or hardware that stabilizes the image

Other uses

* Stabilization (architecture) of worn or damaged foundations of a structure * Stabilization (medical) is a process to help prevent shock in sick or injured people * Stabilization (warfare), part of counter-insurgency operations * Stabilizer subgroup, a concept in group theory *

Automatic stabilizer In macroeconomics, automatic stabilizers are features of the structure of modern government budgets, particularly income taxes and welfare spending, that act to damp out fluctuations in real GDP. The size of the government budget deficit tends t ...

, an economics term *

Crude oil stabilisation Crude oil stabilisation (or stabilization) is a partial distillation process that renders crude oil suitable for storage in atmospheric tanks, or of a quality suitable for sales or pipeline transportation. Stabilization is achieved by subjecting ...

, part of an oil production plant *

Mood stabilizer A mood stabilizer is a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts, such as bipolar disorder and the bipolar type of schizoaffective disorder. Uses Mood stabilizers are best known for th ...

, a kind of psychiatric medication *

Segmental stabilizers In anatomy and physiology, segmental stabilizers are the muscles which provide support across joints, as in the multifidus across spinal vertebrae The spinal column, a defining synapomorphy shared by nearly all vertebrates, Hagfish are bel ...

are the muscles which provide support across joints * Stabiliser cattle, a breed of

beef cattle Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle, used for milk production). The meat of mature or almost mature cattle is mostly known as beef. In beef production there are three main stages: cow-calf opera ...

Stabilizer code The theory of quantum error correction plays a prominent role in the practical realization and engineering of quantum computing and quantum communication devices. The first quantum error-correcting codes are strikingly similar to classical block ...

, a concept in quantum error correction * Stabilizers (band), am American band

Chemistry and food processing

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Photography

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