MOBILITY


Meaning of MOBILITY in English

mōˈbiləd.ē, -ətē, -i noun

( -es )

Etymology: Middle French mobilité, from Old French, from Latin mobilitat-, mobilitas, from mobilis mobile + -itat-, -itas -ity — more at mobile

1. : the quality or state of being mobile : the capacity or facility of movement : movability

the mobility of a liquid

factors of birth, income, and education affecting social mobility

the high mobility of modern labor

2. : the measure of the rate at which a solid is deformed under stress after the yield point has been exceeded

3.

a. : the average speed at which either gaseous or electrolytic ions move under the influence of a unit potential gradient

b. : the average speed with which molecules in solution diffuse under the influence of a unit osmotic pressure gradient

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