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ubiquitous

adj
/juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/UK/juˈbɪkwɪtəs/CA/jʉːˈbɪkwɪtəs/

Etymology

From ubiquity + -ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”). Compare ubiety.

  1. derived from ubīque — “everywhere”
  2. derived from ubīquitās

Definitions

  1. Being everywhere at once

    Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

    • In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous.

  2. Appearing to be everywhere at once

    Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.

    • There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.

  3. Widespread

    Widespread; very prevalent.

The neighborhood

Derived

nonubiquitous, ubiquitous computing, ubiquitously

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ubiquitous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA