mobile

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

   • a mobile home
2. 2

   Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.

   • mobile number
   • mobile internet
   • A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
3. 3

   Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity

   Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.

   • Mercury is a mobile liquid.
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   1. 4

      Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction

      Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

      • the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
   2. 5

      Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.

      • mobile features
      • His finely cut features were capable of every variety of expression; they were, to use a French epithet, expressive as their epithets for all social qualities usually are, mobile in the extreme.
   3. 6

      Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited

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

   4. 7

      A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move…

      A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.

   5. 8

      Ellipsis of mobile phone.

      • Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run
      • Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet.
   6. 9

      The internet accessed via mobile devices

      The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices.

      • There are many business opportunities in mobile.
      • The bug affects mobile, but not desktop.
   7. 10

      One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).

      • […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles". […] We concentrated on a mobile teenager population that had good public transportation or automobile access and a[…]
      • One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The 'immobiles' brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used[…]
   8. 11

      An object capable of moving under its own power.

   9. 12

      A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened…

      A creature or NPC that can navigate and interact with the game world (now often shortened to mob).

      • MUD has a type of character called a mobile. These are monsters controlled by the program such as the Dragon and the Vampire. To kill these a band of adventurers need to hunt down the creature hurling a combined strength to vanquish it.
      • Even mundane mobiles are very advanced. They incorporate other expert systems that enable them to fight (often better than the players); […]
   10. 13

       A city, the county seat of Mobile County, in southwestern Alabama.

       • Oh, Mama / Is this really the end? / To be stuck here inside of Mobile / With the Memphis blues again

The neighborhood

• neighbormobility
• neighbormobilization
• neighbormobilize
• neighbormove