Mobile

Pronunciation

Origin

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis ("easy to be moved, moveable"), from moveō ("move").

Full definition of mobile

Adjective

1. Capable of being moved.
2. By agency of mobile phones.
• 2012-12-01, An internet of airborne things, 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. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.Mercury is a mobile liquid.
4. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
• Hawthornethe quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
5. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.mobile features
6. (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

Antonyms

• fixed
• immobile
• sessile

Derived terms

• MASH
• mobile library
• mobile phone
• mobile station

Noun

1. A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other (Mobile (sculpture)).
2. A mobile phone (Mobile phone).
3. Something that can move.

Related terms

• mobility
• mobilize
• mobilization
• move

Anagrams

• emboli