Betekenis van:
volatile

volatile
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • regenachtig
  • tending to vary often or widely
"volatile stocks"
"volatile emotions"

Hyperoniemen

volatile
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures
    "volatile oils"
    "volatile solvents"
    volatile
    Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • vlinderachtig
    • marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments
    "a flirt's volatile affections"

    Synoniemen

    volatile
    Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
      • liable to lead to sudden change or violence
      "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"

      Synoniemen

      volatile
      Zelfstandig naamwoord
        • a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor
        "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"

        Hyperoniemen


        Voorbeeldzinnen

        1. Reputations are volatile. Loyalties are fickle. Management teams are increasingly disconnected from their staff.
        2. The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.
        3. Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.
        4. For things that have had contents with volatile oil like thinners they should be left for a few days to completely evaporate it before being disposed of as non-flammable waste.
        5. Volatile acids
        6. Volatile acid
        7. Volatile fraction
        8. Volatile component
        9. volatile acidity,
        10. Volatile matter
        11. Non-volatile matter
        12. Non-volatile residue
        13. Volatile organic compounds (VOC)
        14. Organic volatile impurities
        15. Volatile organic compounds.