fluid
noun
1.
a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure
adjective
1.
- “a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty”
- “everything was unstable following the coup”
2.
3.
4.
5.
affording change (especially in social status)
- “Britain is not a truly fluid society”
- “upwardly mobile”
Origin
From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin fluō (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”).
Phrases
- amber fluid
- amniotic fluid
- amniotic fluid embolism
- base fluid
- blinker fluid
- bodily fluid
- body fluid
- brain fluid
- fluid flywheel
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