2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume101, number 2, archived fromthe original on1 May 2013, page114:
An extreme version of vorticity is avortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass offluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
1992, Christopher G. Morris, Academic Press, Christopher W. Morris,Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Gulf Professional Publishing,→ISBN, page854:
fluid inclusionPetrology, a tinyfluid- or gas-filled cavity in an igneous rock. 1-100 micrometers in diameter, formed by the entrapment of afluid, typically that from which the rock crystallized.
The Doctor: Get a good night's sleep and drink plenty offluids. /Kes:Fluids? /The Doctor: Everybody should drink plenty offluids.
2006, Jörg Fitter, Thomas Gutberlet,Neutron Scattering in Biology: Techniques and Applications, Springer Science & Business Media,→ISBN, page236:
For studying interfaces between solid and another solid,fluid, or gas, a sample can be oriented with its reflecting surface(s) vertical (and with the scattering plane, as defined by nominal incident and reflected wavevectors, horizontal).
2011, Andrew T Raftery, Michael S. Delbridge, Marcus J. D. Wagstaff,Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery, International Edition E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences,→ISBN, page11:
Tenderness: is the lump tender? Composition: is the mass solid,fluid or gas?
2012, Will Pettijohn P.E.C.,Oil & Gas Handbook: A Roughneck's guide to the Universe, AuthorHouse,→ISBN, page23:
The choke manifold then expels thefluid or gas to the gas buster or a panic line. The panic line will then either send thefluid or gas to the reserve pit or a flare stack or flare tank.
Economics is a messy discipline: toofluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
1983 December 31, Kenneth Hale-Wehmann, “The Business of Sex and Affection”, inGay Community News, volume11, number24, page 8:
Tom of thefluid pelvis, undulating about the living room in defiance of Michael's taboo on sensuality.
2017, Rick Riordan,Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor (→ISBN), page 274 (the genderfluid character Alex Fierro is speaking):
“Oh, Loki made sure of that. My mortal parents blamed him for the way I was, for beingfluid.”
2021 April 24, Adrian Horton, “‘The uprisings opened up the door’: the TV cop shows confronting a harmful legacy”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:
As do renewals in genres such as romcoms and teen movies, which have updated sexist, heteronormative tropes to reflect audiences’fluid, inclusive, queer realities.
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2021 April 13, Stefan Reinecke, “Debatte um Normalität: Das Normale ist flüssig geworden”, inDie Tageszeitung: taz[3],→ISSN:
Normalität ist nichts Statisches mehr, sie ist mobil,fluide, dehnbar. Wir brauchen sie, aber ohne Ausrufezeichen. Wahrscheinlich ist sie nur als Zwiespältigkeit zu haben.
(electricity,historical)fluid(continuous, weightless substance that was formerly identified with or considered the essence of electricity, heat, and magnetism)
(chiefly in theplural,occult)fluid(mysterious energy that can be transmitted through living organisms, objects, and places, and then received by others, affecting the environment and the atmosphere in it)
