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ALL meanings of volatile

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  • adjective volatile situation: potentially violent 1
  • adjective volatile person: quick to anger 1
  • adjective volatile chemistry: evaporating easily 1
  • adjective volatile evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent. 1
  • adjective volatile tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation. 1
  • adjective volatile changeable; mercurial; flighty: a volatile disposition. 1
  • adjective volatile (of prices, values, etc.) tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly: volatile market conditions. 1
  • adjective volatile fleeting; transient: volatile beauty. 1
  • adjective volatile Computers. of or relating to storage that does not retain data when electrical power is turned off or fails. 1
  • adjective volatile able to fly or flying. 1
  • noun volatile a volatile substance, as a gas or solvent. 1
  • adjective volatile A situation that is volatile is likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly. 0
  • adjective volatile If someone is volatile, their mood often changes quickly. 0
  • adjective volatile A volatile liquid or substance is one that will quickly change into a gas. 0
  • adjective volatile (of a substance) capable of readily changing from a solid or liquid form to a vapour; having a high vapour pressure and a low boiling point 0
  • adjective volatile (of persons) disposed to caprice or inconstancy; fickle; mercurial 0
  • adjective volatile (of circumstances) liable to sudden, unpredictable, or explosive change 0
  • adjective volatile lasting only a short time 0
  • adjective volatile (of a memory) not retaining stored information when the power supply is cut off 0
  • adjective volatile flying or capable of flight; volant 0
  • noun volatile a volatile substance 0
  • noun volatile a winged creature 0
  • adjective volatile flying or able to fly; volitant 0
  • adjective volatile vaporizing or evaporating quickly, as alcohol 0
  • adjective volatile likely to shift quickly and unpredictably; unstable; explosive 0
  • adjective volatile moving capriciously from one idea, interest, etc. to another; fickle 0
  • adjective volatile not lasting long; fleeting 0
  • adjective volatile designating or of memory that does not retain stored data when the power supply is disconnected 0
  • noun volatile any flying creature 0
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