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   Mobile , a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. F. mobile. See Move.]
    Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. “Fixed or else mobile.”
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   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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   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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   Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
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   (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
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   Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.
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   Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.
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   Mobile , n. [L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob.] The mob; the populace. [Obs.] “The unthinking mobile.” 
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   Mobile , 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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