mobility
[moh-bil-i-tee]
- the quality of being mobile.
- Sociology. the movement of people in a population, as from place to place, from job to job, or from one social class or level to another.
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Compare horizontal mobility, vertical mobility.
Origin of mobility
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Examples from the Web for mobility
Contemporary Examples
The other narrative is of mobility in the service of ambition.
With the help of mobility aids and a feeding tube, she lived well past her initial prognosis of death by age 4.
U.K. Courts Grant Mother Right to End Her 12-Year-Old Disabled Daughter’s LifeElizabeth Picciuto
November 4, 2014
The focus on cost and mobility has extended into missions such as ground-based air defense.
Individuals who have lost the ability to stand and walk suffer from many challenges in addition to the loss of mobility.
Nothing is a stronger force for opportunity, for equality, for mobility.
Historical Examples
In reality they doubtless have mobility sufficient for emigration.
Histology of the BloodPaul Ehrlich
They were conscious of the mobility of their society and gloried in it.
The Frontier in American HistoryFrederick Jackson Turner
We are not exploiting our own special characteristics, mobility and sea power!
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2Ian Hamilton
He moves continually, because he must coordinate and adapt his mobility.
Spontaneous Activity in EducationMaria Montessori
His mobility, his eagerness, were sometimes now a perplexity, even a pain to her.
Robert ElsmereMrs. Humphry Ward
mobility
- the ability to move physicallya knee operation has restricted his mobility; mobility is part of physical education
- sociol (of individuals or social groups) movement within or between classes and occupationsSee also vertical mobility, horizontal mobility
- time that a resident of a secure unit is allowed to spend outside the unit, as preparation for an eventual return to society
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Word Origin and History for mobility
n.
early 15c., "capacity for motion," from Old French mobilité "changeableness, inconsistency, fickleness," from Latin mobilitatem (nominative mobilitas) "activity, speed," figuratively "changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy," from mobilis (see mobile (adj.)). Socio-economics sense is from 1900 and writers in sociology.
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