Volatile
adjective
Something that changes quickly or suddenly.
The stock market can be very volatile.
Often appears as...
- volatile market
- volatile situation
adjective
A substance that easily changes into a gas.
Alcohol and gasoline are volatile substances.
Often appears as...
- volatile substance
- volatile organic compounds
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Technical
adjective
Someone who may become violent or angry suddenly.
He has a volatile temper.
Often appears as...
- volatile person
- volatile temper
noun
A volatile substance.
Volatile are used in perfumes and food flavors
Often appears as...
- organic volatile
- aromatic volatile
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Something that changes quickly or suddenly.
The stock market can be very volatile.
Often appears as...
- volatile market
- volatile situation
adjective
A substance that easily changes into a gas.
Alcohol and gasoline are volatile substances.
Often appears as...
- volatile substance
- volatile organic compounds
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Someone who may become violent or angry suddenly.
He has a volatile temper.
Often appears as...
- volatile person
- volatile temper
noun
A volatile substance.
Volatile are used in perfumes and food flavors
Often appears as...
- organic volatile
- aromatic volatile
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Rapid Changes
Use 'volatile' to describe situations that can shift unexpectedly and quickly, often negatively.
Negotiations were volatile, swinging from hopeful to hopeless.
Pro Tip 2/2High Risk
'Volatile' often implies potential danger or risk, especially in financial contexts.
Investing in a volatile market requires caution.
Pro Tip 1/2Rapid Changes
Use 'volatile' to describe situations that can shift unexpectedly and quickly, often negatively.
Negotiations were volatile, swinging from hopeful to hopeless.
Pro Tip 2/2High Risk
'Volatile' often implies potential danger or risk, especially in financial contexts.
Investing in a volatile market requires caution.
Pro Tip 1/2Rapid Changes
Use 'volatile' to describe situations that can shift unexpectedly and quickly, often negatively.
Negotiations were volatile, swinging from hopeful to hopeless.
Pro Tip 2/2High Risk
'Volatile' often implies potential danger or risk, especially in financial contexts.
Investing in a volatile market requires caution.
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What coronavirus means...
And it grows slowly. You know, one or two or three percent a year. It grows slowly, and it's not volatile, because knowledge isn't volatile. But it grows, and that raises our living standards over a period of time. Then there's the short-term debt cycle. The short-term debt cycle is, you know, recessions and expansions
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A personal air-quality...
It's packed with miniature sensors that monitor the most important pollutants in the air around you, like nitrogen oxides, the exhaust gas from cars, or particulate matter that gets into your bloodstream and creates strokes and heart issues. Or volatile organic compounds, the thousands of chemicals in everyday products
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Michael Pollan: A...
and they're just as interesting. I'll give you two examples, also from the lima beans. You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite
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The science of smog -...
leading to a massive reduction in smog. Similarly, regulations on vehicle emissions and gas content in the US reduced the volatile compounds in the air and smog levels along with them. Smog remains a major problem around the world.
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The taste of time PIPE Barb...
volatile aromas of foods that we smell the tactile experience of food we feel and the taste which we detect in the surfaces of our mouth and taste is where a mommy fits in and it's hugely important because now we know if there
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A Creator-Led Internet,...
And one of those lessons was how important stability and predictability were to publishers. No publisher can build a business on a platform that's too volatile, and no business should be entirely reliant on any one platform.
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Helping Hands PIPE Brain...
people as members of our in group or out group humans of volatile groups where our individual survival depended on the survival of others so it makes evolutionary sense to help people in our own groups
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Into Nicaragua's Masaya...
Just look at the size of this volcanic crater. It's about seven miles across. And in the center of it, another volcano was born, Masaya, one of the most volatile in the world,
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Volcanic eruption...
Hopefully, these tools will help us better understand these volatile vents and their explosive eruptions.
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What Happens When Cats...
volatile oils imitator sexual hormone and cause a potent reaction in its brain
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What coronavirus means...
And it grows slowly. You know, one or two or three percent a year. It grows slowly, and it's not volatile, because knowledge isn't volatile. But it grows, and that raises our living standards over a period of time. Then there's the short-term debt cycle. The short-term debt cycle is, you know, recessions and expansions
Video examples
A personal air-quality...
It's packed with miniature sensors that monitor the most important pollutants in the air around you, like nitrogen oxides, the exhaust gas from cars, or particulate matter that gets into your bloodstream and creates strokes and heart issues. Or volatile organic compounds, the thousands of chemicals in everyday products
Video examples
Michael Pollan: A...
and they're just as interesting. I'll give you two examples, also from the lima beans. You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite
Video examples
The science of smog -...
leading to a massive reduction in smog. Similarly, regulations on vehicle emissions and gas content in the US reduced the volatile compounds in the air and smog levels along with them. Smog remains a major problem around the world.
Video examples
The taste of time PIPE Barb...
volatile aromas of foods that we smell the tactile experience of food we feel and the taste which we detect in the surfaces of our mouth and taste is where a mommy fits in and it's hugely important because now we know if there
Video examples
A Creator-Led Internet,...
And one of those lessons was how important stability and predictability were to publishers. No publisher can build a business on a platform that's too volatile, and no business should be entirely reliant on any one platform.
Video examples
Helping Hands PIPE Brain...
people as members of our in group or out group humans of volatile groups where our individual survival depended on the survival of others so it makes evolutionary sense to help people in our own groups
Video examples
Into Nicaragua's Masaya...
Just look at the size of this volcanic crater. It's about seven miles across. And in the center of it, another volcano was born, Masaya, one of the most volatile in the world,
Video examples
Volcanic eruption...
Hopefully, these tools will help us better understand these volatile vents and their explosive eruptions.
Video examples
What Happens When Cats...
volatile oils imitator sexual hormone and cause a potent reaction in its brain
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Ian Gillan
English Musician
Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've got the emotional conflict within any group that you're not mature enough to deal with until you get older. It levels out.
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Felicity Kendal
English Actress
My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
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Tom Hanks
American Actor
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
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Pierre Nanterme
French Businessman
If I had to probably define and characterize my job, and maybe the job of a CEO today in this global world, highly volatile, uncertain, and when you need to transform is to be the catalyst for change. That's probably the definition I would give to my job. I'm the catalyst.
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James Buchan
British Novelist
At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
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Kirk Gibson
American Athlete
I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my parents had tried to defend me. I would just tell them don't worry about it. Our day will come.
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Ridley Scott
British Director
Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.
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Guy Ritchie
British Director
We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
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Robin S. Sharma
Canadian Lawyer
This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.
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Ian Gillan
English Musician
Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've got the emotional conflict within any group that you're not mature enough to deal with until you get older. It levels out.
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Felicity Kendal
English Actress
My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
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Tom Hanks
American Actor
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
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Pierre Nanterme
French Businessman
If I had to probably define and characterize my job, and maybe the job of a CEO today in this global world, highly volatile, uncertain, and when you need to transform is to be the catalyst for change. That's probably the definition I would give to my job. I'm the catalyst.
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James Buchan
British Novelist
At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
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Kirk Gibson
American Athlete
I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my parents had tried to defend me. I would just tell them don't worry about it. Our day will come.
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Ridley Scott
British Director
Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.
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Guy Ritchie
British Director
We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
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Robin S. Sharma
Canadian Lawyer
This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.
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