fluid
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus, from Latin fluō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-.
Pronunciation Nounfluid
- Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
- A liquid as opposed to a solid or gas.
- (specifically, medicine, colloquial, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids.
- French: fluide
- German: Fluid, Flüssigkeit
- Italian: fluido
- Portuguese: fluido
- Russian: жи́дкость
- Spanish: fluido
fluid
- (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
- In a state of flux; subject to change.
- Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
- (of an asset) Convertible into cash.
- (rare) Genderfluid.
- 2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor (ISBN 978-1-4231-6092-2), page 274 (the genderfluid character Alex Fierro is speaking):
- “Oh, Loki made sure of that. My mortal parents blamed him for the way I was, for being fluid.”
- 2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor (ISBN 978-1-4231-6092-2), page 274 (the genderfluid character Alex Fierro is speaking):
- (of or relating to fluid) fluidical, liquid; see also Thesaurus:fluidic
- (subject to change) unstable, variable; see also Thesaurus:changeable
- (moving smoothly) fluent, fluxive; see also Thesaurus:flowing or Thesaurus:runny
- German: flüssig
- Italian: liquido
- Portuguese: líquido
- Russian: ликви́дный
- fluctuate
- fluctuation
- fluency
- fluent
- flux
- fluidal
- fluidic
- fluidics
- fluidify
- fluidise
- fluidize
- fluidity
- fluidous
- semifluid
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