fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfluːɪd/
ipa: /ˈfluɪd/
ipa: /ˈflɪu̯ɪd/
ipa: /ˈfljuːɪd/
rhymes: -uːɪd
Forms: form: fluids
Etymology: From Middle English fluid, from Latin fluidus (“flowing; fluid”), from Latin fluō (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell; surge; overflow; run”). Akin to Ancient Greek φλύειν (phlúein, “to swell; overflow”). Not related to English flow, which is a native, inherited word from *plew-.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 March 23, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 01 May 2013, page 114:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: fluid inclusion Petrology, a tiny fluid- or gas-filled cavity in an igneous rock. 1-100 micrometers in diameter, formed by the entrapment of a fluid, typically that from which the rock crystallized.
ref: 1992, Christopher G. Morris, Academic Press, Christopher W. Morris, Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 854:
text: The Doctor: Get a good night's sleep and drink plenty of fluids. / Kes: Fluids? / The Doctor: Everybody should drink plenty of fluids.
ref: 1995, David Kemper, Michael Piller, “Time and Again”, in Star Trek: Voyager, season 1, episode 4, spoken by The Doctor and Kes (Robert Picardo and Jennifer Lien):
text: For studying interfaces between solid and another solid, fluid, or gas, a sample can be oriented with its reflecting surface(s) vertical (and with the scattering plane, as defined by nominal incident and reflected wavevectors, horizontal).
ref: 2006, Jörg Fitter, Thomas Gutberlet, Neutron Scattering in Biology: Techniques and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 236:
text: Tenderness: is the lump tender?
Composition: is the mass solid, fluid or gas?
ref: 2011, Andrew T Raftery, Michael S. Delbridge, Marcus J. D. Wagstaff, Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery, International Edition E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 11:
text: The choke manifold then expels the fluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line. The panic line will then either send the fluid or gas to the reserve pit or a flare stack or flare tank.
ref: 2012, Will Pettijohn P.E.C., Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck's guide to the Universe, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: typically in the plural
glosses: Intravenous fluids.
Derived terms: amber fluid
amniotic fluid
amniotic fluid embolism
base fluid
biofluid
blinker fluid
bodily fluid
body fluid
brain fluid
brake fluid
Carrel-Dakin fluid
cerebrospinal fluid
cleaning fluid
computational fluid dynamics
corflu
correcting fluid
correction fluid
Cowper's fluid
cryofluid
cutting fluid
dark fluid
diesel exhaust fluid
drilling fluid
elastofluid
embalming fluid
ferrofluid
fluidarity
fluid-bonded
fluid-bound
fluid drachm
fluid dynamics
fluid-elastic
fluid feeder
fluidglycerate
fluidification
fluidiform
fluid intelligence
fluidisation
fluidism
fluidist
fluidless
fluidlike
fluid loading
fluid measure
fluid mechanics
fluid ounce
fluidram
fluidynamics
fog fluid
gargling fluid
gender-fluid
geofluid
gyrofluid
headlight fluid
hydraulic fluid
interstitial fluid
inviscid fluid
lacrimal fluid
lighter fluid
magnetofluid
magnetorheological fluid
menstrual fluid
microfluid
multifluid
nanofluid
nano-fluid
Newtonian fluid
nonfluid
non-Newtonian fluid
palaeofluid
paleofluid
Pasteur's fluid
penetrating fluid
pericardial fluid
pseudofluid
roughing fluid
seminal fluid
serofluid
spinal fluid
starting fluid
subfluid
supercritical fluid
superfluid
synovial fluid
tear fluid
thermofluid
thread-locking fluid
transmission fluid
vaginal fluid
vitreous fluid