Definition of "mobility" in английский

noun

1. The ability to move; capacity for movement.

2. (now chiefly literary) A tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness.

3. (military) The ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position.

4. (chiefly physics) The degree to which particles of a liquid or gas are in movement.

5. (chiefly sociology) The ability of people to move between different social levels or professional occupations.

noun

1. (UK, obsolete, slang, humorous) The 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.