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volatile With regard to computer memory, it means "temporary" and not "highly changeable," which is the usual meaning of the word. See volatile memory.volatile 1. (of a substance) capable of readily changing from a solid or liquid form to a vapour; having a high vapour pressure and a low boiling point 2. Computing (of a memory) not retaining stored information when the power supply is cut off 3. a volatile substance volatile [′väl·əd·əl] (chemistry) Readily passing off by evaporation. volatile Descriptive of a substance which passes off easily as a gas or vapor, evaporating quickly.
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No references found | --"the mud of Paris is particularly stinking; it must contain a great deal of volatile and nitric salts. The sum of his discourse was to this effect: "That about forty years ago, certain persons went up to Laputa, either upon business or diversion, and, after five months continuance, came back with a very little smattering in mathematics, but full of volatile spirits acquired in that airy region: that these persons, upon their return, began to dislike the management of every thing below, and fell into schemes of putting all arts, sciences, languages, and mechanics, upon a new foot. They want more fenders, more breasting- ropes; they want more springs, more shackles, more fetters; they want to make ships with volatile souls as motionless as square blocks of stone. |
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