Usually means: Prone to rapid, unexpected changes.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. volatile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. volatile: Merriam-Webster
  3. volatile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. volatile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. volatile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. volatile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Volatile, volatile: Wordnik
  8. volatile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. volatile: Wiktionary
  10. volatile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. volatile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. volatile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. volatile: Dictionary.com
  14. volatile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. volatile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Volatile (A Hero A Fake album), Volatile (The Lime Spiders album), Volatile (computer programming): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. volatile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. volatile: Rhymezone
  19. volatile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. volatile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. volatile: FreeDictionary.org
  22. volatile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. volatile: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Volatile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. volatile: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  3. VOLATILE: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Volatile: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  4. Volatile (Economics), volatile: Legal dictionary
  5. Volatile (Economics), volatile: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. volatile: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Volatile (Computer Science), Volatile (Economics), volatile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. volatile: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Volatile (Economics), volatile: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Volatile: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. volatile: Nine Planets Glossary
  3. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. volatile: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Volatile: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See volatileness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
adjective:  (of a substance, informal) Explosive.
adjective:  (of a price etc) Variable or erratic.
adjective:  (of a person) Quick to become angry or violent.
adjective:  Fickle.
adjective:  Temporary or ephemeral.
adjective:  (of a situation) Potentially violent.
adjective:  (programming, of a variable etc.) Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
adjective:  (computing, of memory) Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down.
adjective:  (obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
noun:  A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.
noun:  (programming) A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.

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