A fluid used to aid the drilling of boreholes, serving to provide hydrostatic pressure, to keep the drill bit cool and clean, and to suspend the drill cuttings.

A fluid used to roughen the surface of certain playing cards so that they clump together, used as a preparatory stage for certain card tricks.

The process of injecting essential bodily fluids into a person that has experienced severe body water loss or sustained a traumatic injury

The fluid, most often water, used in hydraulic fracturing

Synonym of penetrating oil

(engineering) A volatile, flammable liquid which is used to aid the starting of internal combustion engines, especially during cold weather.

(pathology) A complication of pregnancy characterized by movement of amniotic fluid past the placenta

(physics) a fluid whose stress at each point is not linearly proportional to the strain rate at that point; i.e. its viscosity depends on the applied shear force

plural of amniotic fluid embolism

(computing, mechanics) The study of computational algorithms to solve mathematical problems in the field of fluid dynamics.