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volatiles

volatiles is the plural of volatile.

Noun

volatiles pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The volatile part of a petroleum fraction.
  2. (plural, plural-only) The volatile parts of a planet's atmosphere or crust.

Meaning of volatile

Noun

volatile (plural volatiles)

  1. A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily.
  2. A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value.
    • Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.2011, Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy, Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development, page 74

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Questions about volatiles

What does volatiles mean?
Volatiles means the volatile part of a petroleum fraction.
What is volatiles the plural of?
Volatiles is the plural of volatile.
What part of speech is volatiles?
Volatiles is a noun.

Words near volatiles in the dictionary

  1. volatile memory
  2. volatile organic compound
  3. volatile organic compounds
  4. volatilely
  5. volatileness
  6. volatiles
  7. volatilisable
  8. volatilisation
  9. volatilisations
  10. volatilise
  11. volatilised

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