volatile situation
1volatile — 01. The situation in the region is [volatile], and the military has been put on full alert. 02. The airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York were carrying tanks filled with highly [volatile] jet fuel, which caused the huge… …
2volatile — vol|a|tile [ valətl ] adjective a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous: a volatile stock market The political situation was becoming more volatile. a. someone who is volatile can quickly become angry or violent b. a… …
3volatile — UK [ˈvɒlətaɪl] / US [ˈvɑlət(ə)l] adjective 1) a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous a volatile stock market The political situation was becoming more volatile. a) someone who is volatile can quickly become angry or… …
4volatile — vol|a|tile [ˈvɔlətaıl US ˈva:lətl] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: Latin volatilis, from volare to fly ] 1.) a volatile situation is likely to change suddenly and without warning ▪ an increasingly volatile political situation ▪ the highly …
5volatile — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc …
6volatile — adjective 1 a volatile situation is likely to change suddenly and without much warning: a volatile economic environment 2 someone who is volatile can suddenly become angry or violent 3 a volatile liquid or substance changes easily into a gas… …
7volatile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. gaseous, vaporizable; fickle, changeable, mercurial; unstable, transient; light, giddy; lively; capricious; buoyant, airy. See vapor, changeableness, transientness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having …
8volatile — [ˈvɒləˌtaɪl] adj a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous …
9volatile — [[t]vɒ̱lətaɪl, AM t(ə)l[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED A situation that is volatile is likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly. There have been riots before and the situation is volatile... The international oil markets have been highly volatile since the …
10Volatile variable — In computer programming, a variable or object declared with the volatile keyword may be modified externally from the declaring object. For example, a variable that might be concurrently modified by multiple threads may be declared volatile.… …