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  1. adjective Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place: a mobile organism; a mobile missile system.
  2. adjective Capable of moving or changing quickly from one state or condition to another: a mobile, expressive face.
  3. adjective Fluid; unstable: a mobile situation following the coup.
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  • "We don't have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging," Kallasvuo said in a Finnish television interview. —  Mobility Today
  • 'The old-fashioned type of policing where coppers are sitting by the side of the road watching people go past to see if they are using a mobile is a far better way of doing things.' —  Aftermath News
  • Latin American mobile communications provider Nextel added 266,000 net new subscribers to its network in the first quarter. —  Telecompaper Mobile & Wireless
  • At the same time the mobile is also assigned an IP address. —  WirelessMoves
  • We are targeting the people for whom the mobile is their first and perhaps their only screen (for accessing the Internet). —  Daily News & Analysis
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis, from *movibilis, from movēre, to move; see meuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English mobil; from Middle English mobil (mixed with moble, meble, from Old French moble), from Old French mobile, French mobile = Spanish móvil = Portuguese mobil - Italian mobile, from Latin mobilis, for *movibilis, movable, from movere, move: see move.
  2. Short for L. mobile vulgus, the fickle crowd: mobile, neuter of mobilis, mobile, inconstant, fickle; vulgus, the common people: see vulgar. Hence later mob.
 

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