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comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile
Capable of being moved, especially on wheels. examples
Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones. quotations examples
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.
2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly)
Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom. examples
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. quotations examples
the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind. quotations examples
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.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 176
(biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
plural mobiles
(art) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other. examples
(telephony, UK) Ellipsis of mobile phone. quotations examples
Mobiles squerking, mobiles chirping / Take the money and run
2000, “Idioteque”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead
(uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices. examples
One who moves or can move (e.g. to travel). quotations examples
[…] 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 […]
1963, Highway Research Record
Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.
1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, page 132
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 […]
2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers