[moh-buh
l, -beel or, especially Brit., -bahyl for 1-8, 10, 11; moh-beel or, Brit., -bahyl for 9] 
| 1. | capable of moving or being moved readily. |
| 2. | utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement: a mobile library. |
| 3. | Military. permanently equipped with vehicles for transport. |
| 4. | flowing freely, as a liquid. |
| 5. | changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc.: a mobile face. |
| 6. | quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind. |
| 7. | Sociology.
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| 8. | of or pertaining to a mobile. |
| 9. | 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). |
| 10. | Informal. a mobile home. |
| 11. | Citizens Band Radio Slang. a vehicle. |
[moh-beel, moh-beel] | 1. | a seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River. 200,452. |
| 2. | a river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 mi. (61 km) long. |
| a combining form extracted from automobile, occurring as the final element in compounds denoting specialized types of motorized conveyances: snowmobile; esp. 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. |
| mo·bile (mō'bəl, -bēl', -bīl') adj.
A type of sculpture consisting of carefully equilibrated parts that move, especially in response to air currents. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis, from *movibilis, from movēre, to move; see meuə- in Indo-European roots.] |
| Mo·bile (mō-bēl', mō'bēl') A city of southwest Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River, about 61 km (38 mi) long, on the north shore of Mobile Bay, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. Founded c. 1710, the city was held by the French, British, and Spanish until it was seized by U.S. forces in 1813. In the Battle of Mobile Bay (August 1864) Adm. David Farragut defeated a major Confederate flotilla and secured Union control of the area. Population: 193,000. |
A sculpture made up of suspended shapes that move.
Note: Alexander Calder, a twentieth-century American sculptor, is known for his mobiles.
