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The trait of being unpredictably irresolute
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volatility
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Volatility is an open source memory forensics framework for incident response and malware analysis. It is written in Python and supports Microsoft Windows , Mac OS X , and Linux (as of version 2.5). Volatility was created by computer scientist and entrepreneur ...
WordNet
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n. the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor the trait of being unpredictably irresolute; "the volatility of the market drove many investors away" [syn: unpredictability ] being easily excited [syn: excitability , excitableness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being volatile 2 # The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily 3 # (context computing English) The state of not retaining data in the absence of power 4 # The state of being able to fly 5 # The state of being unpredictable ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volatileness \Vol"a*tile*ness\, Volatility \Vol`a*til"i*ty\, n. Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. Syn: See Levity .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, noun from volatile (adj.).
Usage examples of volatility.
The black market under the Matsuda gang in Tokyo, which had some two thousand members at its peak, exemplified the complexity and volatility of these arrangements.
The reduced metal is only slowly dissolved by hydrochloric acid, and although it is readily soluble in aqua regia, the solution cannot be evaporated or freed from the excess of acids, by boiling, without loss of tin, because of the volatility of stannic chloride.
The reduced metal is only slowly dissolved by hydrochloric acid, and although it is readily soluble in aqua regia, the solution cannot be evaporated or freed from the excess of acids, by boiling, without loss of tin, because of the volatility of stannic chloride.
Lady Truelove found her natural volatility of spirit drew her, like a leaf upon the bosom of the river, into the whirlpools of fast company and high living in the company of a dangerously raffish crowd.
All this keeping pace with the times, this immersion in the results of modern discoveries, this speeding-up of existence so that it was all surface and little root--the increasing volatility, cosmopolitanism, and even commercialism of his life, on which he rather prided himself as a man of the world--was, with a secrecy too deep for his perception, cutting at the aloofness logically demanded of one in his position.
She spent considerable money on designer suits and pearls and accessories, and, in a word, did not suffer from the same problems, such as body fat, adult acne, estrogen volatilities, and rejection, as others.
Weather volatilities happen all around her and are unique to her and intended for her.
Expressions flickered across her features with the speed and volatility of weather fronts moving across the Seattle skyline.