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A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.

Example: There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.

(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.

A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.

An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

To put or keep (an animal) in a stable.

To dwell in a stable.

To park (a rail vehicle).

Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.

Example: He was in a stable relationship.

Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.

Example: You should download the 1.9 version of that video editing software: it is the latest stable version. The newer beta version has some bugs.

(of a sorting algorithm) That maintains the relative order of items that compare as equal.