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Noun
/ˈkwikˌsilvər/,
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The liquid metal mercury,
  1. The liquid metal mercury

  2. Used in similes and metaphors to describe something that moves or changes very quickly, or that is difficult to hold or contain
    • - his mood changed like quicksilver
  1. erratic: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
  2. mercury: a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
  3. Quicksilver is a line of ultralight aircraft that evolved from weight shift hang gliders including Bob Lovejoy's High Tailer.
  4. Quicksilver is the sixth album by American psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. Released in November 1971, it was the first album without original members John Cipollina and David Freiberg. Nicky Hopkins had also left at this point to continue his successful journeyman career. ...
  5. Quiksilver, Inc. , based in Huntington Beach, California, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of surfwear and other boardsport-related equipment. ...
  6. Max Mercury is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero based on Quality Comics' Quicksilver.
  7. Quicksilver is a 1986 feature film starring Kevin Bacon. Written and directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly, the film also includes Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Louie Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, and Rudy Ramos.
  8. Quicksilver was a game show hosted by Ron Maestri that aired on USA Network from June 27, 1994 to October 13, 1995. For its first month, it was paired with another Stone-Stanley game show Free 4 All (which aired immediately after Quicksilver) on the network's afternoon game show block. ...
  9. "Quicksilver" was a song written and performed by the band Pink Floyd for their album Soundtrack from the Film More. It appeared in shortened form in the live suite The Man and the Journey, where it was entitled "Sleep". ...
  10. Quicksilver was an ISP based in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. It offered broadband, dialup and toll's services around New Zealand. Quicksilver was an activity of Mercury Telecommunications Ltd, a company formed by Matthew Hobbs and Mark Frater, both ex-employees of CLEAR Communications.
  11. Mercury, also known as quicksilver or hydrargyrum, is a chemical element with the symbol Hg (Latinized hydrargyrum, from "" meaning watery or runny and "" meaning silver) and atomic number 80. ...
  12. Quicksilver is a historical novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2003. It is the first volume of The Baroque Cycle, his late Baroque historical fiction series, succeeded by The Confusion and The System of the World (both published in 2004). Quicksilver won the Arthur C. ...
  13. The QuickSilver project at Cornell University is an AFRL-funded effort to build a platform in support of a new generation of scalable, secure, reliable distributed computing applications able to "regenerate" themselves after failure. ...
  14. Quicksilver is a computer utility software program for Mac OS X, made by Blacktree Software and distributed freely. It is essentially a graphical shell for the OS X operating system aimed at increasing user efficiency. ...
  15. Quicksilver is a 2009 EP released by The Crüxshadows. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales, and #2 on the Hot 100 Singles Sales, making it their most successful releases, tied with Birthday.
  16. Richard "Rick" Clements was an American professional wrestler from San Diego, California, better known as Quicksilver.
  17. The metal mercury; An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering; To overlay with quicksilver; To treat with quicksilver; Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial
  18. liquid mercury metal. [Boyle, Cavendish, Priestley, Torricelli]
  19. The metal mercury. Often used in thermometers.
  20. owner Scott Stites talks about the excellent work G-Force Design Concepts performed building his 1965 Mustang G-Machine in Horse Trader
  21. (or 'Quick). See - Mercury.
  22. An old term for mercury.