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Definitions for Mobile

[1] capable of moving or being moved readily.
[2] Digital Technology . 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] Military . 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.
[10] 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. Compare stabile(def 3) .
[11] mobile phone.
[12] Informal . a mobile home.
[13] Citizens Band Radio Slang . a vehicle.
[14] a seaport in SW Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River.
[15] a river in SW Alabama, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. 38 miles (61 km) long.
[16] 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.
[17] (in Ptolemaic astronomy) the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise.
[18] prime mover.
[19] having freedom of movement; movable
[20] changing quickly in expression a mobile face
[21] sociol (of individuals or social groups) moving within and between classes, occupations, and localities upwardly mobile
[22] (of military forces) able to move freely and quickly to any given area
[23] (postpositive) informal having transport available are you mobile tonight?
[24] a sculpture suspended in midair with delicately balanced parts that are set in motion by air currents (as modifier ) mobile sculpture Compare stabile
[25] short for mobile phone
[26] 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)
[27] indicating a vehicle designed for a particular person or purpose Popemobile
[28] a prime mover
[29] astronomy the outermost empty sphere in the Ptolemaic system that was thought to revolve around the earth from east to west in 24 hours carrying with it the inner spheres of the planets, sun, moon, and fixed stars

Words related to Mobile

roving, portable, liquid, itinerant, fluid, free, migrant, peripatetic, ambulatory, wandering, locomotive, motile, adaptable, changeable, loose, migratory, motorized, moving, mutable, nomadic

Words nearby Mobile

mobcast, mobe, mobe pearl, moberly, mobie, mobile, mobile bay, mobile command, mobile device, mobile home, mobile library

Origin of Mobile

primum mobileliterally, first moving (thing)

Other words from Mobile

non·mo·bile , adjective
sem·i·mo·bile , adjective
un·mo·bile , adjective

Word origin for Mobile

primum mobileC15: from Medieval Latin: first moving (thing)

Synonyms for Mobile

ambulatory, fluid, free, itinerant, liquid, locomotive, migrant, motile, peripatetic, portable, roving, wandering, adaptable, changeable, loose, migratory, motorized, moving, mutable, nomadic, roaming, unsettled, unstable, unstationary, unsteadfast, unsteady, versatile