Mobile (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. capable of moving or being moved readily.
  2. pertaining to or noting a cell phone, usually one with computing ability, or a portable, wireless computing device used while held in the hand, as in mobile tablet; mobile PDA; mobile app.
  3. utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement: a mobile library.
  4. permanently equipped with vehicles for transport.
  5. flowing freely, as a liquid.
  6. changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc.: a mobile face.
  7. quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind.
  8. Sociology.
    • characterized by or permitting the mixing of social groups.
    • characterized by or permitting relatively free movement from one social class or level to another.
  9. of or relating to a mobile.
noun
  1. a piece of sculpture having delicately balanced units constructed of rods and sheets of metal or other material suspended in midair by wire or twine so that the individual parts can move independently, as when stirred by a breeze.
  2. mobile phone.
  3. a mobile home.
  4. a vehicle.
noun
  1. a seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River.
  2. a river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  1. a combining form extracted from automobile, occurring as the final element in compounds denoting specialized types of motorized conveyances: snowmobile; especially productive in coinages naming vehicles equipped to procure or deliver objects, provide services, etc., to people without regular access to these: bloodmobile; bookmobile; clubmobile; jazzmobile.
adjective
  1. having freedom of movement; movable
  2. changing quickly in expression
  3. (of individuals or social groups) moving within and between classes, occupations, and localities
  4. (of military forces) able to move freely and quickly to any given area
  5. having transport available
noun
    • a sculpture suspended in midair with delicately balanced parts that are set in motion by air currents
    • (as modifier)
  2. short for mobile phone
noun
  1. a port in SW Alabama, on Mobile Bay (an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico): the state's only port and its first permanent settlement, made by French colonists in 1711. Pop: 193 464 (2003 est)
suffix forming nouns
  1. indicating a vehicle designed for a particular person or purpose
Mobile (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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