mobilitynoun詞源 1/mə(ʊ)ˈbɪlɪti/

• 1

  The ability to move; capacity for movement.

  • I find the enduring existence of high heels both a frustrating mystery and a testament to the triumph of women’s neuroses over their mobility.
  • In the late 19th and early 20th century, the festive season was also a period of great mobility before, during and after Christmas Day. But the railways kept working.
• 2

  literaryA tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness.

• 3

  governmentmilitarypoliticsThe ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position.

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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe degree to which particles of a liquid or gas are in movement.

• 5

  human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceThe ability of people to move between different social levels or professional occupations.

  • The difficulty of rising up the economic ladder is reflected in the decline in mobility in the United States. […] The frustration over the lack of mobility is particularly acute for those without college degrees.

mobilitynoun詞源 2/mə(ʊ)ˈbɪlɪti/

• 1

  obsoleteslangThe mob; the common people or rabble.

  • She singled you out with her eye as commander-in-chief of the mobility.
  • Thus, while Morris contemptuously characterized committees of correspondence, popular assemblies, and public debate as the actions of the "mobility" (the mob), John Adams announced that the destruction of a stamp office by a mob "was thought an honorable and glorious act" of the people.