mo·bile
(mṓbəl, -bēĺ, -bīĺ)
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis, from * movibilis, from movēre, to move.]
adjective
- Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place: a mobile organism; a mobile missile system.
- Capable of moving or changing quickly from one state or condition to another: a mobile, expressive face.
- Fluid; unstable: a mobile situation following the coup.
- Marked by the easy intermixing of different social groups: a mobile community.
- Moving relatively easily from one social class or level to another: an upwardly mobile generation.
- Tending to travel and relocate frequently: a restless, mobile society.
- Flowing freely; fluid: a mobile liquid.
noun
- A type of sculpture consisting of carefully equilibrated parts that move, especially in response to air currents.
Mo·bile
(mō-bēĺ, mṓbēĺ)
- A city of southwest Alabama at the mouth of the Mobile River, about 61 km (38 mi) long, on the north shore of Mobile Bay, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. Founded c. 1710, the city was held by the French, British, and Spanish until it was seized by U.S. forces in 1813. In the Battle of Mobile Bay (August 1864) Adm. David Farragut defeated a major Confederate flotilla and secured Union control of the area.
