different between volatile vs fluid

English

Etymology

From Middle French volatile, from Latin vol?tilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from vol? (“I fly”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?v?l.?.tl?/, /?v?l.??ta?.?l/, [?v?.l?.???]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?l.??ta?.(?)l/

Adjective

volatile (comparative more volatile, superlative most volatile)

2. (physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
3. (of a substance, informal) Explosive.
4. (of a price etc) Variable or erratic.
5. (of a person) Quick to become angry or violent.

6. Fickle.
7. Temporary or ephemeral.
8. (of a situation) Potentially violent.
9. (computing, of a variable) Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
10. (computing, of memory) Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
11. (obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ephemeral

Derived terms

• volatility
• volatile memory

Translations

Noun

volatile (plural volatiles)

1. A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.la.til/

Adjective

volatile

1. feminine singular of volatil
2. Alternative spelling of volatil, as a masculine singular

Noun

volatile m (plural volatiles)

1. fowl, bird

Further reading

• “volatile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

volatile

1. inflection of volatil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vol?tilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vo?la.ti.le/

Adjective

volatile (plural volatili)

1. (chemistry, physics) volatile
2. flying

   Synonym: volante

Noun

volatile m (plural volatili)

1. bird, fowl

   Synonym: uccello

Further reading

• volatile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?o?la?.ti.le/, [u?????ä?t?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vo?la.ti.le/, [v??l??t?il?]

Adjective

vol?tile

1. nominative neuter singular of vol?tilis
2. accusative neuter singular of vol?tilis
3. vocative neuter singular of vol?tilis

References

• volatile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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.