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English

Alternative forms

• electrick (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

1640s (Thomas Browne), from New Latin ?lectricus (“electrical; of amber”), from ?lectrum (“amber”) +? -icus (“adjectival suffix”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (?lektron, “amber”), related to ??????? (?lékt?r, “shining sun”). The Latin term was apparently used first with the sense “electrical” in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert in his work De Magnete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?kt??k/, /??l?kt??k/

Adjective

electric (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
2. Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
3. Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.

Synonyms

• electrical

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

electric (plural electrics)

1. (informal, usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply.

   We had to sit in the dark because the electric was cut off.

2. (rare, countable) An electric car.
3. An electric toothbrush.
   • 2007, Working Mother (volume 31, number 1, page 71)

     The beautiful VIOlight bathroom unit takes up very little space (it's about the size of a cup), yet it holds up to 4 toothbrushes - even electrics!

4. An electric typewriter.
   • 1983, Stephen King, Word Processor of the Gods

     Richard's old Olivetti electric had been put aside for the time being on top of one of the filing cabinets. “It serves the purpose,” Richard said. He nodded at the word processor.

5. (archaic) A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.
6. (fencing) Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.

   Antonym: steam

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “electric”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• electric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Dictionary.com definitions of electric
• de V. Heathcote, Niels H. (December 1967) , “The early meaning of electricity: Some Pseudodoxia Epidemica - I”, in Annals of Science, volume 23, issue 4, DOI:10.1080/00033796700203316, ISSN 0003-3790, WD Q54266797, pages 261–275

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

electric m (feminine singular electrica, masculine plural electrics, feminine plural electricas)

1. electric

Related terms

• electricitat

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French électrique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?lek.trik/

Adjective

electric m or n (feminine singular electric?, masculine plural electrici, feminine and neuter plural electrice)

1. electric

Declension

Related terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin flu? (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”). Akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (phlúein, “to swell; overflow”). Not related to English flow, which is a native, inherited word from *plew-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flu??d/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?flju??d/
• Rhymes: -u??d

Noun

fluid (countable and uncountable, plural fluids)

1. Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
2. A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).
   • 1992, Christopher G. Morris, Academic Press, Christopher W. Morris, Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Gulf Professional Publishing (?ISBN), page 854:

     fluid inclusion Petrology, a tiny fluid- or gas-filled cavity in an igneous rock. 1-100 micrometers in diameter, formed by the entrapment of a fluid, typically that from which the rock crystallized.

   • 2006, Jörg Fitter, Thomas Gutberlet, Neutron Scattering in Biology: Techniques and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 236:

     For studying interfaces between solid and another solid, fluid, or gas, a sample can be oriented with its reflecting surface(s) vertical (and with the scattering plane, as defined by nominal incident and reflected wavevectors, horizontal).

   • 2011, Andrew T Raftery, Michael S. Delbridge, Marcus J. D. Wagstaff, Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery, International Edition E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences (?ISBN), page 11:

     Tenderness: is the lump tender?

     Composition: is the mass solid, fluid or gas?

   • 2012, Will Pettijohn P.E.C., Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck's guide to the Universe, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 23:

     The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line. The panic line will then either send the fluid or gas to the reserve pit or a flare stack or flare tank.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fluid.
3. (specifically, medicine, colloquial, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids.

Derived terms

• amber fluid
• brake fluid
• fluid mechanics
• superfluid

Translations

Adjective

fluid (comparative more fluid, superlative most fluid)

1. (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
2. In a state of flux; subject to change.
3. Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
4. (of an asset) Convertible into cash.
5. (rare) Genderfluid.
   • 2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor (?ISBN), page 274 (the genderfluid character Alex Fierro is speaking):

     “Oh, Loki made sure of that. My mortal parents blamed him for the way I was, for being fluid.”

Synonyms

• (of or relating to fluid): fluidical, liquid; see also Thesaurus:fluidic
• (subject to change): unstable, variable; see also Thesaurus:changeable
• (moving smoothly): fluent, fluxive; see also Thesaurus:flowing or Thesaurus:runny

Translations

Related terms

• fluctuate
• fluctuation
• fluency
• fluent
• flux
• fluidal
• fluidic
• fluidics
• fluidify
• fluidise
• fluidize
• fluidity
• fluidous
• semifluid

References

Further reading

• fluid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fluid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fluid at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Adjective

fluid (feminine fluida, masculine plural fluids, feminine plural fluides)

1. fluid

Derived terms

• fluïdesa

Noun

fluid m (plural fluids)

1. fluid

Further reading

• “fluid” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fluid” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fluid” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fluid” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

German

Adjective

fluid (not comparable)

1. fluid

Declension

Synonyms

• flüssig

Further reading

• “fluid” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fluid n (definite singular fluidet, indefinite plural fluid or fluider, definite plural fluida or fluidene)

1. a fluid

Synonyms

• væske

Derived terms

• fluidmekanikk

References

• “fluid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fluid n (definite singular fluidet, indefinite plural fluid, definite plural fluida)

1. a fluid

Synonyms

• væske

Derived terms

• fluidmekanikk

References

• “fluid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French fluide, from Latin fluidus.

Adjective

fluid m or n (feminine singular fluid?, masculine plural fluizi, feminine and neuter plural fluide)

1. fluid

Declension

Related terms

• fluiditate

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flûi?d/
• Hyphenation: flu?id

Noun

fl??d m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. fluid

Declension

Spanish

Verb

fluid

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of fluir.