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adjective

Mobile adj.

Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile."

Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.

Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. "The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition."

Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.

(Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.

Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.

noun

Mobile n. The mob; the populace. (Obs.) "The unthinking mobile."

Mobile n. A form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.

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Etymology of 'Mobile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mobile" Quotes from Famous Books

... And water was the second preparation for life—water, that can dissolve a larger variety of substances in greater concentration than any other liquid; water, that in summer does not readily evaporate altogether from a pond, nor in winter freeze throughout its whole extent; water, that is such a mobile vehicle and such a subtle cleaver of substances; water, that forms over 80 per cent. of living ...

— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson

... bearing which is the chief attraction of Englishmen for American women. His face was as well chiselled as the average of his kind, but lacked the national repose. The eyes were very clever, the features mobile; the tenacity and strength of his nature were indicated in the lower part of his face and in the powerful yet supple build of ...

— The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories • Gertrude Atherton

... on the shore of the sea, whose mobile surface was visible through the open, windows, extending outward until it mingled with the horizon, Padre Florentino was relieving the monotony by playing on his harmonium sad and melancholy tunes, to which the sonorous roar of ...

— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... melody, melody gave birth to light; colors were light and melody; motion was a Number endowed with Utterance; all things were at once sonorous, diaphanous, and mobile; so that each interpenetrated the other, the whole vast area was unobstructed and the Angels could survey it from the ...

— Seraphita • Honore de Balzac

... that!" exclaimed the girl with an enthusiasm that brought a shadow into the mobile face ...

— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet

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