Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being volatile or of having the power of flight.
- n. The state or property of being volatile; disposition to exhale or evaporate; that property of a substance which disposes it to become more or less freely or rapidly diffused and wasted in the atmosphere; capability of evaporating, or being dissipated at ordinary atmospheric temperatures: as, the volatility of ether, alcohol, ammonia, or the essential oils.
- n. The character of being volatile; frivolous, flighty, or giddy behavior; mutability of mind; levity; flightiness; fickleness: as, the volatility of youth.
- n. Synonyms Lightness, Frivolity, etc. (see levity), instability, giddiness.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being volatile
- n. The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily
- n. The state of not retaining data in the absence of power
- n. The state of being able to fly
- n. The state of being unpredictable
- n. A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product
WordNet 3.0
- n. the trait of being unpredictably irresolute
- n. the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor
- n. being easily excited
Examples
“(Of course, this reduction in volatility is by no means welfare improving!)”
“Most recently the Right appears to believe that its desires can reshape the global bond markets, so that a U.S. default would become simply "short term volatility.”
“If you have a longer time horizon, you should determine your asset allocation by taking an asset allocation questionnaire, so that your stock market exposure will permit you to hold and not panic during periods of short term volatility.”
The Huffington Post: Dan Solin: Coping With the Bogeyman of a Market Crash
“I think you can recycle Mark Blumenthal's points about the earlier poll to apply to this one, especially, I think, this: "[I] f the volatility is about voter preferences and not poll methodology, [it's due to] as many as a third of registered voters [being] willing to say they are less than certain about their choice.”
Re: Poll Magic – USAT/Gallup has McCain up by 4 - Swampland - TIME.com
“In December the Zambian national airline stopped flying to Harare, citing high fuel costs and what it termed the volatility of Zimbabwe's currency.”
“Does the current universally employed risk measure—short term volatility—capture the inflationary aspects of a postwar economy?”
Simon & Schuster: Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation
“Historically speaking, when short term volatility occurs, it rarely lasts and markets have corrected themselves and still trend upwards.”
“The short term volatility caused by renewed bearishness on sovereign debt in developed markets is of course a concern to us," he added.”
“The short term volatility caused by renewed bearishness on sovereign debt in developed markets is of course a concern to us," Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg said.”
“He said the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision on whether to cut or maintain interest rates, due at 1430 AEDT on Tuesday, would lead to some short term volatility in bond prices.”
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