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Mobile vs Hypermobile - What's the difference?

mobile | hypermobile |

As adjectives the difference between mobile and hypermobile

is that mobile is capable of being moved while hypermobile is exhibiting hypermobility; able to move further than usual, as of joints.

As a noun mobile

is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other (Wikipedia).

As a proper noun Mobile

is a city in southwest Alabama.

mobile

English

(wikipedia mobile)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being moved.
  • By agency of mobile phones.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine= citation
    • , passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
  • Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
    • Mercury is a mobile liquid.
  • Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
    • (Testament of Love)
  • * Hawthorne
    • the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
  • Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
    • mobile features
  • (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

    • Antonyms

    * fixed * immobile * sessile

    Derived terms

    * MASH * mobile library * mobile phone * mobile station

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().
  • A mobile phone ().
  • Something that can move.

    • Related terms

    * mobility * mobilize * mobilization * move

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    hypermobile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine, anatomy) Exhibiting hypermobility; able to move further than usual, as of joints.
  • (informal) Excessively mobile.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 22, author=, title=Fighting a War Against Distraction, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=No. The P.D.A., the cellphone and the computer did not usher in our hypermobile , split-focus, cybercentric culture. }}