Mobile - Definition and Overview

Mobile has several different meanings.

Most commonly, mobile means something that is capable of being moved or is not static. Typically the capability of being moved is by way of a vehicle, such as an automobile.

By extension, mobile also means:

• A mobile, a common type of kinetic sculpture.
• A mobile home or mobile office
• A mobile phone — in Europe; in the United States cell phone or just 'cell' is more common
• A mobile rig
• A mobile or mob, as in a non-player character in a computer role-playing game

Mobile is also used as the name of places:

• Mobile, Alabama, a city on Mobile Bay in the United States.

See also: Mobil, mobility, Mobilivre