Mobile Definition–adjective | 1. | capable of moving or being moved readily. | | 2. | utilizing motor vehicles for ready movement: a mobile library. | | 3. | Military. permanently equipped with vehicles for transport. | | 4. | flowing freely, as a liquid. | | 5. | changeable or changing easily in expression, mood, purpose, etc.: a mobile face. | | 6. | quickly responding to impulses, emotions, etc., as the mind. | | 7. | Sociology. | a. | characterized by or permitting the mixing o
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Wireless Definition–adjective | 2. | noting or pertaining to any of various devices that are operated with or actuated by electromagnetic waves. | –noun | 4. | wireless telegraphy or telephony. | | 5. | a wireless telegraph or telephone, or the like. | | 6. | any system or device, as a cellular phone, for transmitting messages or signals by electromagnetic waves. | –verb (used with object), verb (used without object) | 9. | to telegraph or telephone by wireless. | |
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