mobile
    adj 1: migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic
           habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a
           peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering
           tribes" [syn: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving,
           wandering]
    2: moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to
       place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most
       mobile articulator" [ant: immobile]
    3: having transportation available
    4: capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to
       another; "a highly mobile face"
    5: affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is
       not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: fluid,
       mobile]
    n 1: a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
         [syn: Mobile, Mobile River]
    2: a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
    3: sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts
       can be set in motion by air currents [ant: stabile]

Mobile \Mo"bile\, a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to
   move: cf. F. mobile. See Move.]
   1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition;
      movable. "Fixed or else mobile." --Skelton.
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   2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or
      flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are
      mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
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   3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable;
      changeable; fickle. --Testament of Love.
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            The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition.
                                                  --Hawthorne.
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   4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence
      of the mind; as, mobile features.
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   5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited;
      capable of spontaneous movement.
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   6. Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place
      to place; as, a mobile work force.
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   7. Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to
      place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.
      [PJC]

Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[i^]l; L. m[o^]b"[i^]*l[=e]), n. [L.
   mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob.]
   The mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile."
   --South.
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Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[=e]l`), n.
   a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff
   material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a
   balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the
   topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the
   parts may move independently when set in motion by a current
   of air.
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Mobile -- U.S. County in Alabama
   Population (2000):    399843
   Housing Units (2000): 165101
   Land area (2000):     1233.090896 sq. miles (3193.690623 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    410.931906 sq. miles (1064.308706 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1644.022802 sq. miles (4257.999329 sq. km)
   Located within:       Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
   Location:             30.722256 N, 88.139667 W
   Headwords:
    Mobile
    Mobile, AL
    Mobile County
    Mobile County, AL

Mobile, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
   Population (2000):    198915
   Housing Units (2000): 86187
   Land area (2000):     117.903061 sq. miles (305.367514 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    41.531877 sq. miles (107.567062 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    159.434938 sq. miles (412.934576 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            50000
   Located within:       Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
   Location:             30.679523 N, 88.103280 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     36602 36603 36604 36605 36606 36607
                         36608 36609 36612 36617 36618 36619
                         36693 36695
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Mobile, AL
    Mobile