The stabiliser is a small horizontal flap on the top of the aircraft's tail.

BBC: Moscow crash jet 'stabiliser jammed'

To keep a lid on things, my doctor prescribes a mood stabiliser and an antipsychotic, daily.

BBC: Bipolar holiday

The electronic image stabiliser (EIS) provides for high-quality recording and avoids blurry clips.

ENGADGET: Toshiba announces Camileo Clip, X200 and X400 camcorders

The stabiliser was found in the wreckage on Monday, Mr Chernov said.

BBC: Moscow crash jet 'stabiliser jammed'

Not least important, marriage is a great social stabiliser of men.

ECONOMIST: Gay marriage

Pension funds thus acted as an automatic stabiliser for the market.

ECONOMIST: Spreading the risk has spread the losses

Carraguard is the proprietary name of a substance made from carrageenan, a carbohydrate gel derived from seaweeds that is widely used as a stabiliser in the food industry.

ECONOMIST: HIV microbicides

Further tests showed that DISC1 acts like lithium, a drug commonly prescribed as mood stabiliser to patients with mental illness, inhibiting the action of a key chemical in the brain.

BBC: Gene 'has key schizophrenia role'

"Our main version is a spontaneous move by the stabiliser into an extreme position that caused the plane to make a steep climb at high speed, " Mr Chernov told Russian NTV television.

BBC: Moscow crash jet 'stabiliser jammed'

Food is the world's secret stabiliser or destabiliser.

ECONOMIST: A prospect of plenty

The heaviest burden of responsibility lies with Japan, whose government could do a great deal to make the world a safer place if at long last it took steps to repair its broken banks, and began to act as a stabiliser for Asia (as the United States was for Mexico after the peso crisis of 1995).

ECONOMIST: Heading for meltdown?