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Matter that gave up having opinions about its shape.
means A substance — liquid or gas — that flows and takes the shape of whatever contains it, rather than holding a fixed form of its own.
from From Latin fluidus, 'flowing,' built from fluere, 'to flow' — the same root that gave English effluent, fluent, and influence (originally the idea of an unseen fluid 'flowing in' from the stars to shape events). English picked up 'fluid' in the 1600s, first in scientific and medical writing, to describe anything that moved and merged rather than stayed put.
- physics definition
- Anything that deforms continuously under shear stress
- plasma too
- Some scientists count plasma as a fourth fluid state
- identity sense
- First used for flexible identity or categories around the 1980s-90s
- glass surprise
- Glass is technically a solid, not a slow-moving fluid