volatility
挥发性,波动性,波动,挥发
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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- : 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.