a. 移动的, 易变的, 机动的

n. 活动物体

[医] 可动的, 移动的

[经] 活动的, 可动的

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.


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.

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. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable;
changeable; fickle. --Testament of Love.

The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition.
--Hawthorne.

4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence
of the mind; as, mobile features.

5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited;
capable of spontaneous movement.

6. Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place
to place; as, a mobile work force.
[PJC]

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[=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.