fluid

English

Etymology

From Latin fluidus (“flowing, fluid”), from fluere (“to flow”), akin to Ancient Greek φλύειν (fluein, “to swell, overflow”). Several related terms in English from Latin (fluent, flux), and cognate from Proto-Indo-European (via Germanic) with flow.

Noun

Wikipedia fluid (countable and uncountable; plural fluids)

1. Any state of matter which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma

Translations

any state of matter which can flow

Arabic: سائل (ar) (saa'il) m., مائع (ar) (maa'i3) m. Catalan: fluid (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 液體 (cmn), 液体 (cmn) (yètǐ) Czech: kapalina (cs) f., tekutina (cs) f. Danish: væske (da) c. Dutch: vloeistof (nl) f. Finnish: fluidi (fi), neste (fi) French: fluide (fr) m. German: Fluid (de) n. Greek: ρευστό (reustó) n. Hebrew: נוזל (he) Hungarian: folyadék (hu) Interlingua: fluido

Italian: fluido (it) m. Japanese: 流体 (ja) (りゅうたい, ryūtai), 液体 (ja) (えきたい, ekitai) Korean: 액체 (ko) (aegche) Latvian: šķidrums (lv) m. Norwegian: Bokmål: væske (nb) m. and f. Nynorsk: væske (nn) f. Polish: płyn (pl) m. Portuguese: fluido (pt) m. Romanian: fluid (ro) n., fluide (ro) n. pl. Russian: жидкость (ru) (žídkost') f., жижа (ru) (žíža) f. (colloquial) Slovene: tekočína (sl) f. Spanish: fluido (es) Swedish: vätska (sv) c. Turkish: akışkan (tr)

Derived terms

• amber fluid

Adjective

fluid (comparative more fluid, superlative most fluid)

1. (not comparable) Of, or relating to fluid.
2. In a state of flux; subject to change.
3. Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
4. (of an asset) Convertible into cash.

Translations

of or relating to fluid

Danish: flydende (da) German: flüssig (de) Italian: fluido (it) Latvian: šķidrs (lv) Norwegian: Bokmål: flytende (nb) Nynorsk: flytande (nn)

Polish: płynny (pl) m., płynowy (pl) m., ciekły (pl) m. Portuguese: fluido (pt) Romanian: fluid (ro) m. and n., fluidă (ro) f., fluizi (ro) m. pl., fluide (ro) f. and n. pl. Russian: жидкий (ru) Spanish: fluido (es) Swedish: flytande (sv) Turkish: akışkan (tr)

in a state of flux; subject to change

Czech: proměnlivý Danish: flydende (da), omskiftelig (da) Dutch: vloeibaar, vloeibare Italian: fluido (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: flytende (nb) Nynorsk: flytande (nn)

Polish: płynny (pl) m. Portuguese: fluido (pt) Russian: текучий (ru), гибкий (ru) Swedish: flytande (sv)

moving smoothly

Czech: plynulý (cs) Danish: flydende (da) Dutch: vloeiend (nl), vloeiende (nl) Esperanto: flua (eo) German: fließend (de)

Norwegian: Bokmål: flytende (nb) Nynorsk: flytande (nn) Polish: płynny (pl) m. Portuguese: fluido (pt) Russian: плавный (ru) Scottish Gaelic: (speech) siùbhlach (gd)

convertible into cash

Dutch: incasseerbaar, incasseerbare German: flüssig (de) Italian: liquido (it)

Polish: płynny (pl) m. Portuguese: líquido (pt)

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Interlingua: fluide

Related terms

• fluctuate
• fluency
• fluent
• flux

External links

• fluid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fluid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• fluid at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /flûiːd/
• Hyphenation: flu‧id

Noun

flȕīd m. (Cyrillic spelling флу̏ӣд)

1. fluid

Declension

    declension of fluid

	singular	plural
nominative	flȕīd	fluidi
genitive	flȕida	fluida
dative	fluidu	fluidima
accusative	fluid	fluide
vocative	fluide	fluidi
locative	fluidu	fluidima
instrumental	fluidom	fluidima

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Spanish

Verb

fluid (infinitive fluir)

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of fluir.