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Entry 9 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Mobile

/mōbēlʹ/ · Mo·bile · IPA /ˈmoʊ.bəl/
01 a. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
  1. 1.
    Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
  2. 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.
  3. 3.
    Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
    “The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition.” — Hawthorne.
  4. 4.
    Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
  5. 5.
    Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.(Physiol.)
  6. 6.
    Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.
  7. 7.
    Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.
02 n. The mob; the populace.
  1. 1.
    The mob; the populace.[Obs.]
03 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 artful…
  1. 1.
    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.