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fluid

18 ENTRIES FOUND:

2fluid

noun

Definition of FLUID

: a substance (as a liquid or gas) tending to flow or conform to the outline of its container
flu·id·al \ˈflü-ə-dəl\ adjective
flu·id·al·ly \-dəl-ē\ adverb
flu·id·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective

Examples of FLUID

  1. Please check the fluids in the car's engine.
  2. She needs to drink plenty of fluids.
  3. Fluid leaked from the car's engine.
  4. a bottle of yellow fluid

First Known Use of FLUID

1661

Other Chemical Engineering Terms

alkali, cation, decant, hygroscopic, isotope, oxidize, slurry, solute, viscous

Rhymes with FLUID

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