Meaning

noun a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay

noun a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay

noun sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

originFrom Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”). The video-gaming sense was coined by Richard Bartle to describe NPCs or creatures capable of moving "under their own power" in the 1978 video game Multi-User Dungeon. Bartle retracted an earlier claim of his that it was from the kinetic sculpture sense of mobile (for the "unpredictable…

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