mobility
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
mobility
- The ability to move; capacity for movement. [from 15th c.]
- 2015, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian, 15 June:
- I find the enduring existence of high heels both a frustrating mystery and a testament to the triumph of women’s neuroses over their mobility.
- 2015, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian, 15 June:
- (now, chiefly, literary) A tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness. [from 16th c.]
- (military) The ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position. [from 18th c.]
- (chiefly, physics) The degree to which particles of a liquid or gas are in movement. [from 19th c.]
- (chiefly, sociology) People's ability to move between different social levels or professional occupations. [from 19th c.]
- French: mobilité
- German: Mobilität
- Italian: mobilità
- Portuguese: mobilidade
- Russian: подви́жность
- Spanish: movilidad
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