See Also: mobility(dictionary)
mobility(2)(dictionary)
mobility(medicine)
mobility(1)(dictionary)
career mobility(medicine)
Mobility of labor(finance)
tooth mobility(medicine)
social mobility(medicine)
residential mobility(medicine)
Air Mobility Command(tourism)

mobility(1) (iou)



mobility noun1. LME.
[Old & mod. French mobilite from Latin mobilitas, from mobilis: see MOBILE adjective, -ITY.]
Ability to move or to be moved; ease or freedom of movement. LME.
J. Bernstein Organs adapted for touching are endowed with the greatest mobility. W. S. Churchill The accident which I suffered..has greatly decreased my mobility.
Ability or tendency to change easily or quickly; changeableness; spec. (of facial features) facility of change of expression, expressiveness. M16.
M. Hale Daily observe in our selves a strange mobility..in our Imaginative..Faculty.
Sociology. The ability or potential to move between different social levels, fields of employment, etc. Also social mobility. L18.
upward mobility: see UPWARD adjective.
Physics etc.
a. Freedom of movement of the particles of a fluid. E19.
b. The degree to which a charge carrier moves in a definite direction in response to an electric field, usu. expressed as the average speed (cm/sec) in a field of one volt per cm divided by the net number of charges on the carrier. L19.
Comb.: mobility allowance a social-security benefit payable to a disabled person to assist with the cost of travel.