volátil
See also: volatil
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin volātilis (“flying; swift; temporary; volatile”), from volō (“to fly”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: vo‧lá‧til
Adjective edit
volátil m or f (plural voláteis)
- (physics, chemistry) volatile (evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions)
- unstable (having a strong tendency to change)
- Synonyms: flutuante, inconstante, instável, variável
- Antonyms: constante, estável, fixo, invariável
- (computing, of memory) volatile (whose content is lost when the computer is powered down)
- volatile; temporary; ephemeral
- able to fly
Synonyms edit
- (temporary): see Thesaurus:duradouro
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "temporary"): see Thesaurus:duradouro
Related terms edit
Noun edit
volátil m or f by sense (plural voláteis)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
volátil m or f (masculine and feminine plural volátiles)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “volátil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014