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volatility

[vol-uh-tl, -til or, especially Brit., -tahyl]

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adjective

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.

(of prices, values, etc.) tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly: volatile market conditions.

fleeting; transient: volatile beauty.

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Computers. of or pertaining to storage that does not retain data when electrical power is turned off or fails.

able to fly or flying.

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noun

a volatile substance, as a gas or solvent.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Latin volātilis, equivalent to volāt(us) (past participle of volāre to fly; see -ate¹) + -ilis -ile

Related forms

vol·a·til·i·ty

[vol-uh-til-i-tee] , vol·a·tile·ness, noun

non·vol·a·til·i·ty, noun

sem·i·vol·a·tile, adjective

un·vol·a·tile, adjective

Synonyms
2. eruptive, unstable, unsettled.

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Example Sentences

With all the volatility last week, it can feel as if the economy is collapsing around us.

Do not, in the meantime, conflate volatility with risk.

But the biggest problem with a floating currency remains the risk of volatility.

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With all the volatility last week, it can feel as if the economy is collapsing around us.

Do not, in the meantime, conflate volatility with risk.

But the biggest problem with a floating currency remains the risk of volatility.

We've also seen much more volatility in the price and supply of coal in recent years.

Don't worry too much about the volatility of the market.

The volatility index is impacting the individual investor.

People vary a good deal in their ability to tolerate the day-to-day and month-to-month volatility of investments.

The volatility of shipping rates is really amazing to me.

Fortunes are made and lost in sudden bursts of activity when the market seems to speed up and the volatility soars.

Volatility goes up, because firms can and do enter and exit positions on a hair trigger.

Income volatility is the mechanism through which guests check in and check out.

But it can use fixed-price contracts to try to protect itself from the volatility of energy prices.

The recent volatility in prices is only one of several challenges facing the oil industry.

Fuel price volatility makes it hard for entrepreneurs to focus steadily on efficiency innovations and renewable energy sources.

In theory, fine art could be used to minimize volatility in an investor's portfolio.

The volatility of aggressive growth funds can be glimpsed in the divergence of one-year returns of the three-year leaders.

Moreover, a surge in speculative activity has exacerbated market volatility.

But that's volatility for you, one side wins and the other side losses.

Our profits are made on the intrinsic short-term market volatility.

Kidder said, for instance, that it would not sell securities during times of high volatility.

The lower volatility of housing has its upsides but also its downsides.

Extreme price volatility might also deter people from investing in green technology.

The real volatility comes when two org-chart peers rub shoulders.

Volatility is often a symptom of risk but is not a risk in and of itself.

But as the electorate gets more and more unsettled, the political volatility and misery is on his hands.

Volatility has fallen in both share and currency markets.

Life insurance as a hedge against the volatility in the stock market has growing adherents.

Diversification distributes risk and reduces volatility.

Volatility was uncannily low until recently in large part because inflation and interest rates were too.

But there are also measures of volatility applied to individual shares.

But this gratifying picture of overall economic stability has been marred by the renewed volatility of the housing market.

The sharp increase in market volatility observed last year has by and large subsided and stabilised.

Given the risk of price volatility and depletion, it is sensible to save some of the bonanza from commodities for a rainy day.

The extreme volatility has perplexed those who follow oil prices.

It avoids the distortions caused by the volatility of market exchange rates.

If you want proof of this all you have to do is look here for the evidence of the extreme heat and volatility of methane gases.

Several had more volatility and larger swings in prices.

The impact on endowments of the latest volatility has yet to be measured.

Bitran's complicated algorithms to deliver low volatility where prices almost.

Having a plan also means devising a strategy for dealing with the volatility of the academic job market.

Volatility does not really enter the equation: new firms are, by definition, too young for it to matter.

As seen in food riots earlier this year, the region is also sensitive to price volatility in international markets.

The volatility that has characterized the markets in recent weeks continued, adding to investors' anxiety.

But such returns come with intense risk and fund volatility.

The volatility of other commodity markets, such as oil and food, lends another element to this debate.

Funds that invest in commodities, real estate and currencies can provide a buffer against the volatility of stocks and bonds.

The financial woes of state and local governments have heightened the muni market's volatility.

If risk is in safer hands, the net effect ought to be to reduce volatility.

Others have done so because the daily volatility has been so great that agreeing on a price has been impossible.

But from the engine's point of view, volatility is desirable.

The carry trade may suffer, currency volatility will increase.

But the recent volatility in global bond and equity markets has made such a.

Volatility is also a feature of the container market.

Bachar, millions of small investors were looking for opportunity in the midst of volatility.

It is hard for outside investors to tell if the volatility is due to bad luck or bad.

Commodity price inflation and volatility has affected a broad spectrum of products and is now affecting.

Hydrocarbons and political volatility seem to go together.

And as with any market disruption, you need to start by staring down the volatility and putting it in context.

Volatility also makes a rights issue risky, even for relatively strong banks.

Also, market volatility dropped to its lowest levels of the year in the quarter.

She was as good a writer as he was, and in her calm, genial wisdom counterpoised his volatility and quick temper.

Recall that market volatility has itself been quite volatile over the past two years.

Attracting enough users to smooth such volatility seems unlikely in the foreseeable future.

It clashed with earlier research that found exchange-rate volatility reduced trade only marginally.

The volatility partly reflects investors' fears of a depression in the rich world, where the three make the bulk of their money.

Expect oil price volatility and more doom sayers in the coming weeks.

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World English Dictionary

volatile (ˈvɒləˌtaɪl)

—*adj*
1.	(of a substance) capable of readily changing from a solid or liquid form to a vapour; having a high vapour pressure and a low boiling point
2.	(of persons) disposed to caprice or inconstancy; fickle; mercurial
3.	(of circumstances) liable to sudden, unpredictable, or explosive change
4.	lasting only a short time: volatile business interests
5.	computing (of a memory) not retaining stored information when the power supply is cut off
6.	obsolete flying or capable of flight; volant

—n
7.	a volatile substance
8.	rare a winged creature

[C17: from Latin volātīlis flying, from volāre to fly]

'volatileness

—n

volatility

—n

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Word Origin & History

volatile

1597 "fine or light," also "evaporating rapidly" (1605), from M.Fr. volatile, from L. volatilis "fleeting, transitory, flying," from pp. stem of volare "to fly," of unknown origin. Sense of "readily changing, fickle" is first recorded 1647. Volatiles in M.E. meant "birds, butterflies, and other winged

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creatures" (c.1300).

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Medical Dictionary

volatile vol·a·tile (vŏl'ə-tl, -tīl')
adj.

Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures.
That can be readily vaporized.
Tending to violence; explosive, as of behavior.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

volatile

(vŏl'ə-tl) Pronunciation Key
Changing easily from liquid to vapor at normal temperatures and pressures. Essential oils used in perfumes are highly volatile.

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