primum mobile

[ pree-moom moh-bi-le; English prahy-muhm mob-uh-lee, pree- ]

/ ˈpri mʊm ˈmoʊ bɪˌlɛ; English ˈpraɪ məm ˈmɒb əˌli, ˈpri- /

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noun Latin.

(in Ptolemaic astronomy) the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise.

prime mover.

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Origin of primum mobile

Literally, “first moving (thing)”

Words nearby primum mobile

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How to use primum mobile in a sentence

“I sense that mobile games are starting to shed their skin, getting rid of all the dead things they carry around,” he says.
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According to court testimony by the lead NCIS investigator, it contained various mobile phones and even valuable letters.
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The system is truck-mounted and road-mobile, as are the big and conspicuous radars that stood next to it on display.
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The caller mentioned my work, which focused primarily on consumer products, mobile apps, emerging start-ups, and web trends.
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Prison guards in Lima found a contraband mobile phone in his prison cell that he claimed was given to him by the warden.
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Industrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.
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She did not answer, but her mobile, painted lips quivered, as if she were trying to repress a smile and were not quite succeeding.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
John N. Maffit, the well known and eccentric methodist preacher, died at Mobile.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
With him prayer was a thing of absolute necessity, and resignation to the eternal decrees the primum mobile of all.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
It may be said that among uncivilized and barefoot people the great toe is usually very mobile.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris

British Dictionary definitions for primum mobile

primum mobile

/ Latin (ˈpraɪmʊm ˈməʊbɪlɪ) /

noun

a prime mover

astronomy the outermost empty sphere in the Ptolemaic system that was thought to revolve around the earth from east to west in 24 hours carrying with it the inner spheres of the planets, sun, moon, and fixed stars

Word Origin for primum mobile

C15: from Medieval Latin: first moving (thing)

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