1. Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
   "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is … the most mobile articulator"
    
2. Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
   "a highly mobile face"
    
3. Having transportation available
   "The mobile workforce could easily commute between different office locations"
    
4. Having no fixed home; changing location regularly as required for work or food
   "a restless mobile society";
   - nomadic, peregrine [archaic], roving, wandering
    
5. Affording change (especially in social status)
   "upwardly mobile";
   - fluid

1. [Brit] A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network using radio waves
   "In the UK, people often refer to cellphones as mobile phones"; "In Australia, some people colloquially refer to mobile phones as mobes";
   - cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, cell [N. Amer], mobile phone, cellular [N. Amer], mobe [informal]
    
2. Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
   "The baby was fascinated by the colourful mobile hanging above the crib"

1. A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
    
2. A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
   - Mobile River

Derived forms: mobiles

See also: airborne, ambulant, ambulatory, changeable, changeful, floating, maneuverable [US], manoeuvrable [Brit, Cdn], mechanised [Brit], mechanized, motile, motorised [Brit], motorized, movable, moveable, moving, perambulating, racy, raisable, raiseable, rangy, rotatable, seaborne, transferable, transferrable, transplantable, transportable, unsettled, versatile, waterborne

Type of: city, metropolis, port, radiophone, radiotelephone, river, sculpture, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn], wireless telephone

Antonym: immobile, stabile

Part of: AL, Ala., Alabama, Camellia State, Heart of Dixie

Encyclopedia: Mobile, Alabama in the Civil War