volatility

volatile | American Dictionary

volatile
adjective
us/ˈvɑl·ə·t̬əl/
likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly, or suddenly violent or angry:
It was a volatile situation, and the police handled it well.
The stock market was highly volatile in the early part of the year.
chemistry
If a substance, esp. a liquid, is volatile, it will change easily into a gas:
volatile chemicals

volatility

noun[ U ]us/ˌvɑl·əˈtɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
Volatility in wheat on Wednesday resulted in a single-day trading record in Kansas City.

volatile | Business English

volatile
adjective
uk /ˈvɒlətaɪl/ us /ˈvɑːlətəl/
likely to change often or suddenly and unexpectedly:
American technology shares remain volatile.
a volatile fund/investment/market
Property has always been less volatile than shares or gilts.

volatility

noun[ U ]
Some investors are nervous about market volatility.

Examples of volatile

volatile
It can be hypothesized that males seem to require both visual and volatile cues.
Leisure is much less volatile than any other series.
If liquid paint with volatile solvent is deposited on a substrate, we can assume that initially the polymer is dissolved and unstressed.
One is an unstable volatile substance that elicits ultrasound vocalizations in male mice as an unconditioned response.
The rise of felsic magma to a high level in the crust without degassing or neutralization of the melt volatile phase suggests deep faulting.
Volatile chemicals percolate through the ground and on reaching the surface are carried away by the wind.
At that point, revenue would be maximized on average, but would be volatile.
The volatile blend induced in ginkgo by jasmonic acid was slightly attractive to predatory mites.
To these places flocked buyers and sellers of different things and information from all parts circulated in these volatile spaces.
They were applied equidistant from control and the pipette tip containing the volatile chemical immediately after the application of the chemical being tested.
As a result, those with volatile employment histories are not penalized.
However, its reach hints that here there was something more volatile at stake than the mere offending of ideas of purity and respectability.
Among these volatiles are some important markers for the microbiological state of wine, for wine sensory characteristics, or for wine origin (both geographic and varietal).
Using an overlapping generations model, the authors show that this leads to less volatile contribution rates and more fluctuation in benefit rates.
If economic fundamentals are not changing very much from year to year, why are capital asset returns so volatile?
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