mobile
Forms
- Comparative
- more mobile
- Superlative
- most mobile
- Plural
- mobiles
Definitions
1.Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
2.Able to move freely or easily.
- She's mobile again after her skiing accident.
3.Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
4.Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
1.A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
2.One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel).
3.Ellipsis of mobile phone.
- Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet.
4.The internet accessed via mobile devices; the version of a product seen on mobile devices.
- The bug affects mobile, but not desktop.
- There are many business opportunities in mobile.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3072
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).
The video-gaming sense was coined by Richard Bartle to describe NPCs or creatures capable of moving "under their own power" in the 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon.