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volatile

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volatile
—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 violence; explosive: a volatile political situation.
3. changeable; mercurial; flighty: a volatile disposition.
4. (of prices, values, etc.) tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly: volatile market conditions.
5. fleeting; transient: volatile beauty.
6. Computers. of or pertaining to storage that does not retain data when electrical power is turned off or fails.
7. able to fly or flying.
n.
8. a volatile substance, as a gas or solvent.
[1250-1300; ME < L volatilis, equiv. to volat(us) (ptp. of volare to fly; see -ATE1) + -ilis -ILE]
Syn. 2. eruptive, unstable, unsettled.

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