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volatility

/vol-uh-tl, -til or, especially British, -tahyl/US // ˈvɒl ə tl, -tɪl or, especially British, -ˌtaɪl //UK // (ˈvɒləˌtaɪl) //

挥发性,波动性,波动,挥发

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent.
    • : tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation.
    • : changeable; mercurial; flighty: a volatile disposition.
    • : tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly: volatile market conditions.
    • : fleeting; transient: volatile beauty.
    • : Computers. of or relating to storage that does not retain data when electrical power is turned off or fails.
    • : able to fly or flying.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a volatile substance, as a gas or solvent.

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Examples

  • Volatility of reputation and subjectivity of quality make it difficult to define the novel in terms of absolute excellence.

  • Second, growing your own power is an insurance policy against volatility.

  • To be fair, there are nonpartisan, academic roots to the vision of the Cold War as a model of stability, not volatility.

  • I loved the volatility to his reaction and the deception, and then her walking away with the security guards to the elevator.

  • He fears, especially, the volatility of it all: the checkpoints, the nearby Israeli settlements, and the bombings.

  • Owing to its extreme volatility it can only be taken dissolved in spirit.

  • Her natural volatility and satirical humour are now transformed to chastened vivacity and the sportive sallies of innocent wit.

  • There was more stuff in Barbara, with all her seeming volatility, than in a wilderness of lady Anns.

  • De Garros, with the volatility of a true Frenchman, waved his hand to show that he was not injured.

  • I have been many a time surprised to observe the strange volatility of sailormen.