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verb
- be unstable
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
noun
adj
- explosively unstable
- relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes
- igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
- Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
- Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes.
- (figurative) Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
- Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies.
noun
noun
- unreliability attributable to being unstable
- (uncountable) The quality of being unstable.
- the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute
- an unstable order
- a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
- (physics, countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
adj
- Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
- Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
- (figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
- causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
- not to be trusted
adj
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- (textual criticism) Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
- Extremely important.
- (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
noun
adj
noun
adj
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- In the style of rock music.
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- (originally US) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- (Of an animal or plant) Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- liable to rock
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- abounding in rocks or stones
- full of hardship or trials
adj
noun
verb
noun
- an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
- a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
- (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
- (medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
adj
- uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances
- being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
- possible but not certain to occur
- Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
- Temporary.
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
noun
- a gathering of persons representative of some larger group
- a temporary military unit
- (military) A quota of troops.
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
adj
- Unpredictable.
- Not stable.
- Fluctuating; not constant.
- (physics) Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
- Fickle.
- (chemistry) Readily decomposable.
- Having a strong tendency to change.
- disposed to psychological variability
- highly or violently reactive
- suffering from severe mental illness
- subject to change; variable
- lacking stability or fixity or firmness
- affording no ease or reassurance
verb
adj
- Erratic or unsustained.
- Of or relating to the spasmodic poets, a group of British Victorian poets who wrote introspective drama in verse.
- Intermittent or fitful; occurring in abrupt bursts.
- Convulsive; consisting of spasms.
- Of or relating to a spasm; resembling a sudden contraction of the muscles.
- affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
- occurring in spells and often abruptly
noun
noun
- instability in the atmosphere
- a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
- unstable flow of a liquid or gas
- (uncountable, aviation) Specifically, a state of agitation or disturbance in the air which is disruptive to an aircraft.
- (uncountable) The state or fact of being turbulent or agitated; tempestuousness, disturbance.
- (countable) An instance or type of such state or disturbance.
- (uncountable) Disturbance in a gas or fluid, characterized by evidence of internal motion or unrest.
verb
- disturb the balance or stability of
- form metals with a swage
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
noun
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
noun
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- intense adverse criticism
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- the act of attacking
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- strong criticism
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- (gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (audio) The amount of time taken for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (South India) Short for heart attack.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- (wine) The initial sensory impact of a wine.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
verb
- take the initiative and go on the offensive
- attack someone physically or emotionally
- launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
- begin to injure
- set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
- attack in speech or writing
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (physical chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
adj
adj
noun
- A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
- The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
- (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
- The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
- A state of ongoing change.
- a flow or discharge
- a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action
- the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
- a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
- (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
- the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
- excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea)
- in constant change
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
- the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed
noun
- The state of being volatile.
- (uncountable) The state of being unpredictable.
- (uncountable) The state of being able to fly.
- (finance, countable) A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product.
- (uncountable) The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily.
- (computing, uncountable) The state of not retaining data in the absence of power.
- being easily excited
- the trait of being unpredictably irresolute
- the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor
adj
- liable to sudden unpredictable change
- relating to or containing or caused by mercury
- (not comparable, medicine) Caused by the action of mercury or a mercury compound.
- (not comparable, astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Mercury.
- (comparable) Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.
- (not comparable, Roman mythology) Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence (comparable), money-making; crafty.
- (not comparable, chemistry) Of or pertaining to the element mercury or quicksilver; containing mercury.
- (not comparable, astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mercury; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see adjective sense 1).
noun
adj
- Unpredictable, variable; having periods of good and bad (e.g. weather).
- (chiefly of a person, usually Canada, US, in particular) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
- Having streaks.
- (cricket) Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
- (soccer) Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
- marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations
adj
- Erratic and unpredictable; tending to jump back and forth.
- (mathematics, of a function) Having a product of independent variables, or a variable with an exponent not equal to one.
- (of a system) Whose output is not directly proportional to its input.
- (chemistry, of a molecule) Whose atoms do not lie in a straight line.
- (of a set of points) Not lying on a straight line.
- designating or involving an equation whose terms are not of the first degree
noun
noun
- unreliability attributable to being unstable
- (uncountable) The quality of being unstable.
- the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute
- an unstable order
- a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
- (physics, countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
noun
- an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
- a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
- (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
- (medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
adj
noun
noun
- instability in the atmosphere
- a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
- unstable flow of a liquid or gas
- (uncountable, aviation) Specifically, a state of agitation or disturbance in the air which is disruptive to an aircraft.
- (uncountable) The state or fact of being turbulent or agitated; tempestuousness, disturbance.
- (countable) An instance or type of such state or disturbance.
- (uncountable) Disturbance in a gas or fluid, characterized by evidence of internal motion or unrest.
noun
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- intense adverse criticism
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- the act of attacking
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- strong criticism
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- (gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (audio) The amount of time taken for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (South India) Short for heart attack.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- (wine) The initial sensory impact of a wine.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
verb
- take the initiative and go on the offensive
- attack someone physically or emotionally
- launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
- begin to injure
- set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
- attack in speech or writing
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (physical chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
adj
noun
- An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
- the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed
noun
- The state of being volatile.
- (uncountable) The state of being unpredictable.
- (uncountable) The state of being able to fly.
- (finance, countable) A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product.
- (uncountable) The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily.
- (computing, uncountable) The state of not retaining data in the absence of power.
- being easily excited
- the trait of being unpredictably irresolute
- the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor
verb
- be unstable
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
verb
- disturb the balance or stability of
- form metals with a swage
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
noun
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
adj
- explosively unstable
- relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes
- igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
- Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
- Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes.
- (figurative) Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
- Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies.
noun
adj
- Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
- Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
- (figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
- causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
- not to be trusted
adj
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- (textual criticism) Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
- Extremely important.
- (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
noun
adj
noun
adj
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- In the style of rock music.
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- (originally US) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
- Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- (Of an animal or plant) Having a habitat around or on rocks.
- liable to rock
- causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- abounding in rocks or stones
- full of hardship or trials
adj
noun
verb
adj
- uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances
- being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
- possible but not certain to occur
- Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
- Temporary.
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
noun
- a gathering of persons representative of some larger group
- a temporary military unit
- (military) A quota of troops.
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
adj
- Unpredictable.
- Not stable.
- Fluctuating; not constant.
- (physics) Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
- Fickle.
- (chemistry) Readily decomposable.
- Having a strong tendency to change.
- disposed to psychological variability
- highly or violently reactive
- suffering from severe mental illness
- subject to change; variable
- lacking stability or fixity or firmness
- affording no ease or reassurance
verb
adj
- Erratic or unsustained.
- Of or relating to the spasmodic poets, a group of British Victorian poets who wrote introspective drama in verse.
- Intermittent or fitful; occurring in abrupt bursts.
- Convulsive; consisting of spasms.
- Of or relating to a spasm; resembling a sudden contraction of the muscles.
- affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
- occurring in spells and often abruptly
noun
adj
noun
- A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
- The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
- (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
- The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
- A state of ongoing change.
- a flow or discharge
- a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action
- the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
- a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
- (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
- the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
- excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea)
- in constant change
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- liable to sudden unpredictable change
- relating to or containing or caused by mercury
- (not comparable, medicine) Caused by the action of mercury or a mercury compound.
- (not comparable, astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Mercury.
- (comparable) Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.
- (not comparable, Roman mythology) Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence (comparable), money-making; crafty.
- (not comparable, chemistry) Of or pertaining to the element mercury or quicksilver; containing mercury.
- (not comparable, astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mercury; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see adjective sense 1).
noun
adj
- Unpredictable, variable; having periods of good and bad (e.g. weather).
- (chiefly of a person, usually Canada, US, in particular) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
- Having streaks.
- (cricket) Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
- (soccer) Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
- marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations
adj
- Erratic and unpredictable; tending to jump back and forth.
- (mathematics, of a function) Having a product of independent variables, or a variable with an exponent not equal to one.
- (of a system) Whose output is not directly proportional to its input.
- (chemistry, of a molecule) Whose atoms do not lie in a straight line.
- (of a set of points) Not lying on a straight line.
- designating or involving an equation whose terms are not of the first degree