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Mo⋅bile

[moh-beel, moh-beel]
–noun
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.
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Cultural Dictionary

mobile

A sculpture made up of suspended shapes that move.

Note: Alexander Calder, a twentieth-century American sculptor, is known for his mobiles.
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Word Origin & History

mobile  (adj.)
1490, 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: mo·bile
Pronunciation: 'mO-b&l, -"bIl
Function: adjective
: capable of moving or being moved about readily mobile and rod-shaped proteins that form solid structures> mobile articulator —G. A. Miller>; specifically : characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity mobile liquids> —mo·bil·i·ty /mO-'bil-&t-E/ noun plural -ties
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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