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• volatile — 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… …   Grammatical examples in English

• volatile — 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… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• volatile — 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… …   English dictionary

• volatile — 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 …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• volatile — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc …   Collocations dictionary

• volatile — adjective 1 a volatile situation is likely to change suddenly and without much warning: a volatile economic environment 2 someone who is volatile can suddenly become angry or violent 3 a volatile liquid or substance changes easily into a gas… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• volatile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. gaseous, vaporizable; fickle, changeable, mercurial; unstable, transient; light, giddy; lively; capricious; buoyant, airy. See vapor, changeableness, transientness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having …   English dictionary for students

• volatile — [ˈvɒləˌtaɪl] adj a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• volatile — [[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 …   English dictionary

• Volatile variable — In computer programming, a variable or object declared with the volatile keyword may be modified externally from the declaring object. For example, a variable that might be concurrently modified by multiple threads may be declared volatile.… …   Wikipedia

• volatile — 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… …   Financial and business terms