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Fluid vs Fungible - What's the difference?

fluid | fungible |

As nouns the difference between fluid and fungible

is that fluid is any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma while fungible is any fungible item.

As adjectives the difference between fluid and fungible

is that fluid is of or relating to fluid while fungible is able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility; interchangeable, exchangeable, replaceable.

fluid

English

Noun

(wikipedia fluid)
  • (physics) Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid , which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

    Derived terms

    * amber fluid * brake fluid * fluid mechanics

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
  • In a state of flux; subject to change.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
  • (of an asset) Convertible into cash.

    • Related terms

    * fluctuate * fluency * fluent * flux

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    fungible

    English

    (Fungibility)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (finance, and, commerce) Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility; interchangeable, exchangeable, replaceable.
  • * 1876 [1877], , Silver and Gold and Their Relation to the Problem of Resumption , page 116:
    • Gold is fungible'. Silver is ' fungible ; that is, these metals are both so homogeneous that, if I get a pound of pure gold, for example, it is indifferent to me whether it be this pound or that pound, one is as good as another
  • * 2011 , Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, London Review of Books , XXXIII.9:
    • At the core of Kasarda’s conception of the aerotropolis lies the notion that space – unlike time – is fungible .

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Any fungible item.

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