fluid
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.
Other meanings
A liquid as opposed to a solid or gas.
Intravenous fluids.
Kinds of fluid
- coolant
- liquid
Related words
- amber fluid
- brake fluid
- fluid mechanics
- superfluid
- amniotic fluid
- amniotic fluid embolism
- base fluid
- blinker fluid
- bodily fluid
- body fluid
- brain fluid
- cerebrospinal fluid
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "fluō" (to flow).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fluid” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.