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Mobile

[moh-buhl, -beel or, especially Brit., -bahyl]

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adjective

capable of moving or being moved readily.

Digital Technology. pertaining to or noting a cell phone, usually one with computing ability, or a portable, wireless computing device used while held in the hand, as in mobile tablet; mobile PDA; mobile app.

utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement: a mobile library.

Military. permanently equipped with vehicles for transport.

flowing freely, as a liquid.

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changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc.: a mobile face.

quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind.

Sociology.

characterized by or permitting the mixing of social groups.

characterized by or permitting relatively free movement from one social class or level to another.

of or pertaining to a mobile.

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noun

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a piece of sculpture having delicately balanced units constructed of rods and sheets of metal or other material suspended in midair by wire or twine so that the individual parts can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze. Compare stabile (def. 3).

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mobile phone.

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Informal. a mobile home.

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Citizens Band Radio Slang. a vehicle.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Origin:
1480–90; < Latin, neuter of mōbilis movable, equivalent to mō- (variant stem of movēre to move) + -bilis -ble

Related forms

non·mo·bile, adjective

sem·i·mo·bile, adjective

un·mo·bile, adjective

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Full disclosure: We're not sold on mobile video.

This sea eagle also hangs from the mobile.

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noun

a seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River. 200,452.

a river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 miles (61 km) long.

a combining form extracted from automobile, occurring as the final element in compounds denoting specialized types of motorized conveyances: snowmobile; especially productive in coinages naming vehicles equipped to procure or deliver objects, provide services, etc., to people without regular access to these: bloodmobile; bookmobile; clubmobile; jazzmobile.

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mobile (ˈməʊbaɪl)

—*adj*
1.	having freedom of movement; movable
2.	changing quickly in expression: a mobile face
3.	sociol (of individuals or social groups) moving within and between classes, occupations, and localities: upwardly mobile
4.	(of military forces) able to move freely and quickly to any given area
5.	informal (postpositive) having transport available: are you mobile tonight?

—n
6.	a. a sculpture suspended in midair with delicately balanced parts that are set in motion by air currents
	b. Compare stabile (as modifier): mobile sculpture
7.	short for mobile phone

[C15: via Old French from Latin mōbilis, from movēre to move]

Mobile (ˈməʊbiːl, məʊˈbiːl)

—n
	a port in SW Alabama, on Mobile Bay (an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico): the state's only port and its first permanent settlement, made by French colonists in 1711. Pop: 193 464 (2003 est)

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Word Origin & History

mobile

late 15c., from M.Fr. mobile, from L. mobilis "movable," from movere "to move" (see move). The noun is early 15c. in astronomy; the artistic sense is first recorded 1949 as a shortening of mobile sculpture (1936). Mobile home first recorded 1940.

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Mobile

city in Alabama, U.S., attested c.1540 in Spanish as Mauvila, referring to an Indian group and perhaps from Choctaw (Muskogean) moeli "to paddle."

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