MOBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mobility mean? 

• MOBILITY (noun)
  The noun MOBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of moving freely

  Familiarity information: MOBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of moving freely

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("mobility" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mobility"):

locomotion; motive power; motivity (the power or ability to move)

motility (ability to move spontaneously and independently)

movability; movableness (the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged)

maneuverability; manoeuvrability (the quality of being maneuverable)

manipulability (the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands)

restlessness (the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active)

Antonym:

immobility (the quality of not moving)

Derivation:

mobile (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place))

mobile (migratory)

 Context examples 

High mobility group nucleosome-binding domain-containing protein 4 (90 aa, ~10 kDa) is encoded by the human HMGN4 gene.

(High Mobility Group Nucleosome-Binding Domain-Containing Protein 4, NCI Thesaurus)

High mobility group protein B1 (215 aa, ~25 kDa) is encoded by the human HMGB1 gene.

(High Mobility Group Protein B1, NCI Thesaurus)

High mobility group nucleosome-binding domain-containing protein 3 (99 aa, ~11 kDa) is encoded by the human HMGN3 gene.

(High Mobility Group Nucleosome-Binding Domain-Containing Protein 3, NCI Thesaurus)

It manifests as lack of mobility in the arm, usually in the first week of life.

(Brachial Plexus Palsy due to Birth Trauma, NCI Thesaurus)

It manifests as lack of mobility in the arm.

(Brachial Plexus Palsy, NCI Thesaurus)

High mobility group protein B2 (209 aa, ~24 kDa) is encoded by the human HMGB2 gene.

(High Mobility Group Protein B2, NCI Thesaurus)

High mobility group protein B3 (200 aa, ~23 kDa) is encoded by the human HMGB3 gene.

(High Mobility Group Protein B3, NCI Thesaurus)

High mobility group protein HMGI-C (109 aa, ~12 kDa) is encoded by the human HMGA2 gene.

(High-Mobility Group Protein HMGI-C, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes high mobility group protein HMG-I/HMG-Y, is involved in chromatin remodeling, DNA-dependent transcriptional regulation and inhibition of tumor suppressor p53 protein-dependent apoptosis.

(HMGA1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

High mobility group protein HMG-Y (96 aa, ~11 kDa) is encoded by the human HMGA1 gene.

(High Mobility Group Protein HMG-Y, NCI Thesaurus)