Definition of mobile

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mo·bile    (mbl, -bl, -bl) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:

1. Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place: a mobile organism; a mobile missile system.
2. 1. Capable of moving or changing quickly from one state or condition to another: a mobile, expressive face.
   2. Fluid; unstable: a mobile situation following the coup.
3. 1. Marked by the easy intermixing of different social groups: a mobile community.
   2. Moving relatively easily from one social class or level to another: an upwardly mobile generation.
   3. Tending to travel and relocate frequently: a restless, mobile society.
4. Flowing freely; fluid: a mobile liquid.

NOUN:
(mbl)

A type of sculpture consisting of carefully equilibrated parts that move, especially in response to air currents.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mbilis, from *movibilis, from movre, to move; see meu- in Indo-European roots