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Emigrate vs Volatile - What's the difference?

emigrate | volatile |

As a verb emigrate

is to leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.

As an adjective volatile is

(physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.

emigrate

English

Verb

(emigrat)
  • To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
  • * Macaulay
  • Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
  • * J. H. Newman
  • They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

    Antonyms

    * immigrate

    volatile

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
  • (of a substance, informal) explosive.
  • (of a price etc) variable or erratic.
  • (of a person) quick to become angry or violent.
  • fickle.
  • temporary or ephemeral.
  • (of a situation) potentially violent.
  • (computing, of a variable) having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
  • (computing, of memory) whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
  • (obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * volatility * volatile memory