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A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses. +

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

(Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.

(sumo) An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.

(professional wrestling) A group of wrestlers who support each other within a wrestling storyline.

(slang) A group of prostitutes managed by one pimp.

A group of people who are looked after, mentored, considered or trained in one place or for a particular purpose or profession.

A coherent or consistent set of things (typically abstract) available or presented; array.

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

To dwell in a stable.

(rail transport) To park (a rail vehicle).

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

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

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

(commutative algebra) Eventually satisfying the identity IM_n = M_{n+1}.