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. Above all, heat and light stabilizers are added to plastic and rubber materials because they ensure safe processing and protect products agains ...

, a substance added to prevent unwanted change in state of another substance ** Polymer stabilizers are stabilizers used specifically in plastic or other polymers *

Stabilizer (food) A stabiliser or stabilizer is an additive to food which helps to preserve its structure. Typical uses include preventing oil-water emulsions from separating in products such as salad dressing; preventing ice crystals from forming in frozen 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 Suspension (chemistry), suspended in the wine is removed before bottling. This matter may include dead yeast (wine), yeast cells (lees (wine), lees), bacter ...

Mathematics

* Stabilization (category theory) *

Stabilizer subgroup In mathematics, a group action of a group G on a set S is a group homomorphism from G to some group (under function composition) of functions from S to itself. It is said that G acts on S. Many sets of transformations form a group under func ...

Technology

Buoyancy compensator (diving) Buoyancy (), or upthrust, is the force exerted by a fluid opposing the weight of a partially or fully immersed object (which may be also be a parcel of fluid). In a column of fluid, pressure increases with depth as a result of the weight of t ...

adjusts buoyancy. *

Stabilizer (aircraft) An aircraft stabilizer is an aerodynamic surface, typically including one or more movable control surfaces, that provides longitudinal (pitch) and/or directional (yaw) stability and control. A stabilizer can feature a fixed or adjustable stru ...

, 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, sta ...

of airplanes **

Tailplane A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabilizer, is a small lift (force), 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 ...

or horizontal stabilizer *

Stabilizer (ship) Ship stabilizers (or stabilisers) are fins or rotors mounted beneath the waterline and emerging laterally from the hull (watercraft), hull to reduce a ship's ship motions#Rotational motions, roll due to wind or waves. ''Active fins'' are contr ...

, fins on ships to counteract roll * Stabilizer, another name for bicycle training wheels * 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 he ...

* Drilling stabilizer, part of the bottom hole assembly in oil drilling * Gyroscopic stabilizer (disambiguation), on ships and aircraft * Gun stabilizer, 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 an automobile suspension part that helps reduce the body roll of a vehicle during fast cornering or over road irregularities. It links opposite front or rear wheels to a to ...

, 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 confine ...

, 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 fram ...

, an external mechanical device to stabilize the camera as a whole *

Image stabilization Image stabilization (IS) is a family of techniques that reduce motion blur, blurring associated with the motion of a camera or other imaging device during exposure (photography), exposure. Generally, it compensates for panning (camera), pan an ...

, 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 *

Automatic stabilizer In macroeconomics, automatic stabilizers are features of the structure of modern government budgets, particularly income taxes and Welfare (financial aid), welfare spending, that act to damp out fluctuations in real GDP. The size of the government ...

, 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 t ...

, a kind of psychiatric medication * Segmental stabilizers 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 Stabilizer, stabiliser, stabilisation or stabilization may refer to: Chemistry and food processing * Stabilizer (chemistry), a substance added to prevent unwanted change in state of another substance ** Polymer stabilizers are stabilizers used ...

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

Chemistry and food processing

Mathematics

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Photography

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