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How quickly and unpredictably something changes. In finance, "market volatility" means prices go up and down a lot in a short time. It can also describe a person whose mood changes suddenly (sometimes to anger), or a situation that feels like it could explode at any moment.
波動性;(市場)不穩定;(情緒)易變
組成From Latin "volare," to fly — a substance that is "volatile" evaporates, or "flies off," easily, and the meaning grew to cover anything that changes fast.
同家族的字
- volatilethe direct base word, same root
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
volatilitynoun/ˌvɒl.əˈtɪl.ə.ti/
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The state of being volatile.
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The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe state of not retaining data in the absence of power.
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The state of being able to fly.
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The state of being unpredictable.
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businessfinanceA quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product.
- The recent volatility has come with the S&P 500 hovering just above bear market territory, or a 20 percent drop from its most recent high.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。