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bistable

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bistable
Pronounced "bye-stable." With regard to electronics, it refers to technologies that maintain their binary state without power, although they require power to change it. For example, non-volatile storage, such as flash memory, maintains its 0 or 1 state without power. A flip-flop is a bistable circuit, and E Ink is a bistable display technology. See non-volatile memory, future memory chips, flip-flop and E Ink.
bistable
1. having two stable states
2. Computing another name for flip-flop

bistable [¦bī¦stā·bəl]
(science and technology)
Capable of assuming either of two stable states.


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Her work turns on these bistable (rabbit/duck) rivals of signifier and referent, and our space versus the photographed space.
The remaining 23 invited papers explore the human, mosquito, and viral factors that contribute to the global spread and persistence of dengue; the possible roles of interlinked bistable networks, epigenetic inheritance, and bet-hedging in bacteria; and the identification and localization of base J in the genome of kinetoplastids, the enzymes involved in J biosynthesis, and possible biological functions.
xx](x, t) + f(u(x, t), t); where D > 0, x [member of] R, t [member of] R and f(u, t) is almost periodic in t, uniformly with respect to u, may model a variety of physical and biological phenomena, such as the signal propagation along bistable transmission lines, the propagation of nerve pulse, or the pattern formation in reacting-diffusing media (equations of Fisher or of Kolmogorov type).
 
 
 
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