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mobile

mo·bile

UK/məʊˈbiːl/ US/moʊˈbiːl/ common uk
adjective (5) noun (3)

adjective

1.

moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)

  • “a mobile missile system”
  • “the tongue is...the most mobile articulator”
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2.

(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently

  • “a restless mobile society”
  • “the nomadic habits of the Bedouins”
  • “believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future”
  • “wandering tribes”
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3.
4.

capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another

  • “a highly mobile face”
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5.

affording change (especially in social status)

  • “Britain is not a truly fluid society”
  • “upwardly mobile”
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noun

1.

a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

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3.

sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

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Origin

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”). The video-gaming sense was coined by Richard Bartle to describe NPCs or creatures capable of moving "under their own power" in the 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon. Bartle retracted an earlier claim of his that it was from the kinetic sculpture sense of mobile (for the "unpredictable but limited" motion of the hanging ornaments).

Phrases

  • cellular mobile
  • ground mobile force
  • mobile billboard
  • mobile chicane
  • mobile crane
  • mobile data
  • mobile elevated work platform
  • mobile elevating work platform
  • mobile entity
  • mobile object

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