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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

mobile
     adj 1: moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place
            to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue
            is...the most mobile articulator" [ant: immobile]
     2: (of groups of people) tending to travel and change
        settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the
        nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession
        of a peregrine typist would have a happy future";
        "wandering tribes" [syn: nomadic, peregrine, roving,
         wandering]
     3: having transportation available
     4: capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to
        another; "a highly mobile face"
     5: affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is
        not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: fluid]
     n 1: a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay [syn:
           Mobile, Mobile River]
     2: a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay [syn: Mobile]
     3: sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced
        parts can be set in motion by air currents [ant: stabile]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Mobile \Mo"bile\, a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to
   move: cf. F. mobile. See Move.]
   1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition;
      movable. ``Fixed or else mobile.'' --Skelton.

   2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or
      flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are
      mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.

   3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable;
      changeable; fickle. --Testament of Love.

            The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition.
                                                  --Hawthorne.

   4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence
      of the mind; as, mobile features.

   5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited;
      capable of spontaneous movement.
Mobile \Mo"bile\, n. [L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and
   cf. 3d Mob.]
   The mob; the populace. [Obs.] ``The unthinking mobile.''
   --South.

Source: U.S. Gazetteer (1990) 

Mobile, AL (city, FIPS 50000)
  Location: 30.67745 N, 88.08896 W
  Population (1990): 196278 (82817 housing units)
  Area: 305.7 sq km (land), 100.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 36602, 36603, 36604, 36605, 36606, 36607, 36608, 36609, 36612, 36617, 36618, 36619, 36693, 36695
Mobile, AZ
  Zip code(s): 85239