volatile
11volatile — [adj] explosive, changeable airy, buoyant, capricious, effervescent, elastic, elusive, ephemeral, erratic, expansive, fickle, fleeting, flighty, flippant, frivolous, fugacious, fugitive, gaseous, gay, giddy, impermanent, imponderable,… …
12volatile — Volatile. s. Animal qui vole. Cet animal est du genre des volatiles, parmy les volatiles, &c. Son usage le plus ordinaire est au pluriel …
13volatile — 1. volatile [ vɔlatil ] adj. • v. 1380; lat. volatilis ♦ Vx Qui peut voler, qui a des ailes. « Le canard, ce porc de la gent volatile » (Hugo). ♢ Littér. Formé d oiseaux. « Des tribus volatiles de toutes les espèces » (L. Bertrand). ⊗ HOM.… …
14volatile — 01. The situation in the region is [volatile], and the military has been put on full alert. 02. The airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York were carrying tanks filled with highly [volatile] jet fuel, which caused the huge… …
15volatile — [[t]vɒ̱lətaɪl, AM t(ə)l[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED A situation that is volatile is likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly. There have been riots before and the situation is volatile... The international oil markets have been highly volatile since the …
16volatile — A market which often is subject to wide price fluctuations is said to be volatile. This volatility is often due to a lack of liquidity. The CENTER ONLINE Futures Glossary * * * volatile vol‧a‧tile [ˈvɒlətaɪl ǁ ˈvɑːlətl] adjective a volatile… …
17volatile — volatility /vol euh til i tee/, volatileness, n. /vol euh tl, til/ or, esp. Brit., / tuyl /, adj. 1. evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent. 2. tending or threatening to break out into open… …
18volatile — vol|a|tile [ valətl ] adjective a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous: a volatile stock market The political situation was becoming more volatile. a. someone who is volatile can quickly become angry or violent b. a… …
19volatile — UK [ˈvɒlətaɪl] / US [ˈvɑlət(ə)l] adjective 1) a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous a volatile stock market The political situation was becoming more volatile. a) someone who is volatile can quickly become angry or… …
20volatile — vol|a|tile [ˈvɔlətaıl US ˈva:lətl] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: Latin volatilis, from volare to fly ] 1.) a volatile situation is likely to change suddenly and without warning ▪ an increasingly volatile political situation ▪ the highly …
