Mobility may refer to:
Social sciences and humanities
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Economic mobility, ability of individuals or families to improve their economic status
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Geographic mobility
Geographic mobility is the measure of how populations and goods move over time. Geographic mobility, population mobility, or more simply mobility is also a statistic that measures migration within a population. Commonly used in demography and huma ...
, the measure of how populations and goods move over time
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Mobilities, a contemporary paradigm in the social sciences and humanities that explores the movement of people, ideas and things
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Individual mobility
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Hypermobility (travel), the social aspects and environmental impacts of excessive travel
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Private transport, e.g., car-based
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Transport
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Sustainable transport
Sustainable transport refers to ways of transportation that are sustainable in terms of their social and environmental impacts. Components for evaluating sustainability include the particular vehicles used for road, water or air transport; th ...
, refers to the broad subject of transport that is or approaches being sustainable
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Active mobility (also known as soft mobility), based on non-motorized transportation methods
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Social mobility
Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society ...
, movement of people between one social classes or economic levels
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Mobility (chess)
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, the ability of a chess piece to move around the board and chess game
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"Mobility" (song), a 1990 song by Moby
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''Mobility'' (video game), a 2001 computer game
Computing and telecommunications
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Mobile computing
Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage, which allows for the transmission of data, voice, and video. Mobile computing involves mobile communication, mobile hardware ...
, human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage
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Mobility model
Mobility models characterize the movements of mobile users with respect to their location, velocity and direction over a period of time. These models play an vital role in the design of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks(MANET). Most of the times simulators ...
, model of the motion of users of mobile phones and wireless ad hoc networks
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Personal mobility, the ability of telecommunication user to access services on the basis of a personal identifier
Education
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Academic mobility, students and teachers in higher education studying or teaching elsewhere for a limited time
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Apprentices mobility
Apprentices mobility is the movement of students and teachers in vocational education or training (VET) to another institution inside or outside their own country to study or teach for a limited time. The term is usually used in the context of Eu ...
, students and teachers in vocational education, or training studying or teaching elsewhere for a limited time
Physics
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Electrical mobility
Electrical mobility is the ability of charged particles (such as electrons or protons) to move through a medium in response to an electric field that is pulling them. The separation of ions according to their mobility in gas phase is called ion ...
, ability of charged particles to move through a medium
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Electron mobility
In solid-state physics, the electron mobility characterises how quickly an electron can move through a metal or semiconductor when pulled by an electric field. There is an analogous quantity for holes, called hole mobility. The term carrier mobili ...
, how quickly an electron can move through a metal or semiconductor
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Electrophoretic mobility, the velocity of a dispersed charged particle in electrophoresis
Other uses
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Mobility (military), the ability of military units or weapon systems to move to an objective
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Mobility Carsharing, car sharing cooperative of Switzerland
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basic activities of daily living (ADL) in the fields of health care and rehabilitation
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E-mobility known as electric vehicle (EV)
See also
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Flexibility (anatomy), limberness, the range of movement in a joint or series of joints
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Logistics, the management of the flow of resources between points to meet some requirements
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Mobile (disambiguation)
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Mobility aid, a device designed to assist walking
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Mobilization, the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war
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Motility, a biological term which refers to the ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process
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Motion (physics)
In physics, motion is the phenomenon in which an object changes its position with respect to time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, speed and frame of reference to an observer and mea ...
, a change in position of an object with respect to time and its reference point
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