A continuous, amorphous substance whose molecules move freely past one another and that has the tendency to assume the shape of its container; a liquid or gas.
ADJECTIVE:
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a fluid. 2. Readily reshaped; pliable. 3. Smooth and flowing; graceful: the fluid motion of a cat.4a. Changing or tending to change; variable: a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty.b. Characterized by or allowing social mobility: a fluid society.5. Convertible into cash: fluid assets.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English, flowing, from Old French fluide, from Latin fluidus, from fluere, to flow. See bhleu- in Appendix I.
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