title: Stabilizer
text: # Stabilizer
  
  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 specifically is plastic or other polymers
  * Stabilizer (food), a type of food additive
  * Wood stabilization, a wood preservation process to prevent distortion caused by moisture
  * Clarification and stabilization of wine
  
  ## Mathematics
  
  * Stabilization (category theory)
  * Stabilizer subgroup
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Buoyancy compensator (diving) adjusts buoyancy.
  * Stabilizer (aircraft), surfaces to help keep aircraft under control. Includes:
     * Vertical stabilizer of airplanes
     * Tailplane or horizontal stabilizer
  * Stabilizer (ship), 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
  * 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, a bar linking the two sides of an automotive suspension
  * Stabilization pond, a way of stabilizing wastewater
  * Voltage stabilizer, a system designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage
  
  ### Photography
  
  * Camera stabilizer, an external mechanical device to stabilize the camera as a whole
  * Image stabilization, 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, an economics term
  * Crude oil stabilisation, part of an oil production plant
  * Mood stabilizer, a kind of psychiatric medication
  * Segmental stabilizers are the muscles which provide support across joints
  * Stabiliser cattle, a breed of beef cattle
  * Stabilizer code, a concept in quantum error correction
  * Stabilizers (band), am American band
  