fluidal

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From fluid +‎ -al.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

fluidal (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly geology) Pertaining to a fluid, or to a flowing motion.
    • 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 348:
      The contours of their bodies […] had dissolved at the edges, resembling, as it occurred to me, said Austerlitz, the frayed outlines of the human hand shown in the fluidal pictures and electrographs taken by Louis Draget in Paris around the turn of the century.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German fluidal.

Adjective[edit]

fluidal m or n (feminine singular fluidală, masculine plural fluidali, feminine and neuter plural fluidale)

  1. fluidal

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