mobile device
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mobile device
First recorded in 1985–90
Example Sentences
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John Liffen, of the museum, described the equipment as "a valuable device to explore how people's relationship with radio has changed over time".
From BBC • Oct. 24, 2014
Their most valuable device, however, is the use of old English poetry to show that the "new" is part of one great literature.
From Time Magazine Archive
What do you consider your most valuable device in the preparation of a lesson?
From Principles of Teaching by Bennion, Adam S.
It was by perfecting the engines of the Newcomen type and adding to them first one and then another valuable device that Watt finally built up the forerunner of our present-day engine.
From Steve and the Steam Engine by Scott, A. O. (Arthur O.)
It was greeted at once with scientific acclaim and enthusiasm as a distinctly new and great invention, although at first it was regarded more as a scientific toy than as a commercially valuable device.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
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