Steady state (disambiguation)
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Steady state has a number of meanings:
- In biochemistry, steady state is a central term in osmosis.
- In chemistry, steady state is a central term in chemical kinetics.
- In cosmology, steady state is a non-standard cosmological view developed in 1949 by Fred Hoyle and others as an alternative to the Big Bang theory.
- In physiology, steady state is a system in which a particular variable is not changing but energy must be continuously added to maintain this variable constant.
- In macroeconomics, a time series variable reaches the steady state when its growth rate in time remains constant.