liquid
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< Middle English liquide < Old French liquide < Latin liquidus (“‘fluid, liquid, moist’”) < liquere (“‘to be liquid, be fluid’”).
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liquid (countable and uncountable; plural liquids)
- (physics) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
- A liquid can freeze to become a solid or evaporate into a gas.
- (phonetics) An l or r sound.
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The differentiation of a liquid as an incompressible fluid is not strictly correct, experiment having shown that liquids are compressible to a very limited extend. See fluid.
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substance that is liquid
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l or r sound
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liquid (comparative more liquid, superlative most liquid)
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- Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- liquid nitrogen
- (finance) Of an asset, easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- (finance) Of a market, having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- 2005, xpresstrade.com [1]
- The spot foreign exchange market is the world’s largest and most liquid financial market. With a daily trading volume of over $1.5 trillion, the spot forex market can absorb trading sizes that dwarf the capacity of any other market.
- 2005, xpresstrade.com [1]
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fluid; not solid and not gaseous
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of an asset, easily sold or disposed of
of a market, having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy
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[edit] External links
- liquid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- liquid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
