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volitile

volitile is the misspelling of volatile.

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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What is volitile the misspelling of?
Volitile is the misspelling of volatile.

Words near volitile in the dictionary

  1. volitation
  2. volitational
  3. volitations
  4. volitiency
  5. volitient
  6. volitile
  7. volition
  8. volitional
  9. volitionalism
  10. volitionalist
  11. volitionalists

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