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• Mobile (sculpture) — A simple modern mobile in the style of Alexander Calder A mobile is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium. It consists of a number of rods, from which weighted objects or further rods hang. The… …   Wikipedia

• mobile — [ mɔbil ] adj. et n. m. • 1301 « bien meuble »; lat. mobilis « qui se meut », pour movibilis, de movere « mouvoir » I ♦ Adj. (1377) 1 ♦ Qui peut être mû, dont on peut changer la place ou la position. Pièce mobile d une machine, d un dispositif… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Mobile (art) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Mobile. Sculpture en Berkenthin, Allemagne Un mobile est un ensemble d éléments construits en matériaux légers et disposés de telle façon qu ils prennent des disp …   Wikipédia en Français

• Mobile — For information on using Wikipedia on mobile devices, see Help:Mobile device. Mobile often refers to: Mobile phone, a portable communications device Mobile, Alabama, a U.S. port city Mobile (sculpture), a hanging artwork (or toy) Mobility, the… …   Wikipedia

• Mobile — adj. & n. adj. 1 movable; not fixed; free or able to move or flow easily. 2 (of the face etc.) readily changing its expression. 3 (of a shop, library, etc.) accommodated in a vehicle so as to serve various places. 4 (of a person) able to change… …   Useful english dictionary

• mobile — adj. & n. adj. 1 movable; not fixed; free or able to move or flow easily. 2 (of the face etc.) readily changing its expression. 3 (of a shop, library, etc.) accommodated in a vehicle so as to serve various places. 4 (of a person) able to change… …   Useful english dictionary

• mobile — {{11}}mobile (adj.) late 15c., from M.Fr. mobile (14c.), from L. mobilis movable, easy to move; loose, not firm, figuratively, pliable, flexible, susceptible, nimble, quick; changeable, inconstant, fickle, contraction of *movibilis, from movere… …   Etymology dictionary

• mobile — [mō′bəl, mō′bīl΄; ] for adj. 5 [ & ] n. [, mō′bēl΄] adj. [OFr < L mobilis, movable < movere, to MOVE] 1. a) moving, or capable of moving or being moved, from place to place b) movable by means of a motor vehicle or vehicles [a mobile X ray… …   English World dictionary

• Mobile — Mo bile (m[=o] b[=e]l ), n. a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Mobile Museum of Art — Coordinates: 30°42′13″N 088°09′19″W / 30.70361°N 88.15528°W / 30.70361; 88.15528 …   Wikipedia