ubiquity

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One of the causes of the frustration is the simple ubiquity, the super-abundance of recorded music in the 21st century.

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  1. noun Existence or apparent existence everywhere at the same time; omnipresence: "the repetitiveness, the selfsameness, and the ubiquity of modern mass culture” (Theodor Adorno ).

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  • The same drives that we see towards ubiquity, towards diversity, towards socialization, towards complexity. —  Kevin Kelly on how technology evolves
  • If silverlight can beat flash in its features and platform ubiquity, then people will start using sliverlight toolkits to make UIs rather than Flash. —  OSNews
  • Kathleen Hall Jamieson's not too far behind story this weekend about Barack Obama's ubiquity, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette asked Kathleen Hall Jamieson's expert opinion about whether he's overexposed in the media. —  The Chicago Blog
  • As customers come to find ubiquity, they also start to expect ubiquity. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • : A brief musing on Wi-Fi's ubiquity, and the right to take bandwidth without knowing where it came from. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
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  1. New Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque, everywhere : ubī, where; see kwo- in Indo-European roots + -que, and, generalizing particle; see kwe in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French ubiquite, French ubiquité = Spanish ubicuidad = Portuguese ubiquidade, from Latin ubique, everywhere, from ubi, where: see ubication.
 

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