volatile
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French volatile, from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“I fly”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɒl.əˌtaɪ.(ə)l/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈvɑ.lə.təl/, [ˈvɑ.lə.tl̩], [ˈvɑ.lə.ɾɫ̩]
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective[edit]
volatile (comparative more volatile, superlative most volatile)
- (physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
- (of a substance, informal) Explosive.
- (of a price etc) Variable or erratic.
- (of a person) Quick to become angry or violent.
- a volatile man
- Fickle.
- Temporary or ephemeral.
- (of a situation) Potentially violent.
- (programming, of a variable etc.) Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
- 2010, Jon Jagger, Nigel Perry, Peter Sestoft, Annotated C# Standard, page 467:
- This method stores a value into a non-volatile field called
result
, then stores true in the volatile fieldfinished
. The main thread waits for the fieldfinished
to be set to true, then reads the fieldresult
.
- (computing, of memory) Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down.
- (obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:ephemeral
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions
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(informal) explosive
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(of a price etc) variable or erratic
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fickle
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quick to become angry
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temporary or ephemeral
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(of a situation) potentially violent
(computing, of memory) whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
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Noun[edit]
volatile (plural volatiles)
- A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.
- (programming) A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.
- 2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74:
- Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
volatile
Noun[edit]
volatile m (plural volatiles)
Further reading[edit]
- “volatile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Adjective[edit]
volatile
- inflection of volatil:
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
volatile (plural volatili)
Noun[edit]
volatile m (plural volatili)
Further reading[edit]
- volatile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯oˈlaː.ti.le/, [u̯ɔˈɫ̪äːt̪ɪɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voˈla.ti.le/, [voˈläːt̪ile]
Adjective[edit]
volātile
References[edit]
- volatile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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