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Mobile County
Mobile County, Alabama: county on Mobile Bay created December 18, 1812 by Mississippi Territorial Gov. David Holmes; seat Mobile; 414,809 people (2020); three-member commission; home of the Port of Mobile, the state's only saltwater port.
Mobile County Public School System
Mobile County Public Schools (MCPSS) is Alabama's largest school district, governing Mobile County schools since 1826. Known for the 1963-1997 Birdie Mae Davis desegregation case, municipal secessions by Saraland, Chickasaw, and Satsuma, and declining enrollment since 2016.
Mobile crane
A mobile crane is a lifting machine mounted on wheels or tracks that can travel between job sites, ranging from truck cranes to crawlers lifting over 3,000 tonnes.
Mobile device
A mobile device, also called a hand held computer, is a portable pocket-sized computing device, ranging from basic phones to smartphones and tablets, with the smartphone now the most common gateway to the internet.
Mobile device management
Mobile device management (MDM) is a category of software that lets an organization monitor, manage, and secure mobile devices, whether corporate-issued or personally owned, from a central console.
Mobile Fighter G Gundam (機動武闘伝Gガンダム)
Mobile Fighter G Gundam (機動武闘伝Gガンダム) is Sunrise's 1994 49-episode anime, the first non-Universal Century Gundam series, set in Future Century 60 where nations settle leadership through a four-yearly Gundam Fight tournament.
Mobile game
Mobile game: video game played on smartphones, tablets, and phones. From 1997 Nokia Snake through J2ME and the 2008 App Store to a $100B+ free-to-play market with in-app purchases.
Mobile Health Units
Mobile Health Units (MHUs, mobile clinics, mobile medical units) are portable facilities delivering diagnostic and therapeutic care to underserved, rural, and conflict-affected communities, defined in MeSH since 1970 and deployed at national scale in the US and India.
Mobile High-Definition Link
Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) is a wired audio/video standard, announced in 2010, that carries uncompressed video from a smartphone or tablet to a display while powering the device over the same cable.
Mobile home
A mobile home, also known as a trailer home or house trailer, is a factory-built dwelling on a permanent chassis; since 1976 US homes of the type are called manufactured homes.
Mobile IP
Mobile IP is an IETF communications protocol that lets a computer keep the same IP address while moving between networks, using a home agent that tunnels datagrams.
Mobile launcher platform
A mobile launcher platform is a large structure on which a rocket is assembled, transported to the launch pad, and launched; NASA's serves the SLS rocket at Kennedy Space Center.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (决胜巅峰, MLBB) is a free-to-play mobile 5v5 MOBA by Moonton, released 2016, with 1.5 billion installs, 110 million monthly users, and record-setting M Series esports.
Mobile lounge
A mobile lounge, also known as a Plane Mate, is a large airport passenger vehicle carrying travelers between terminal and aircraft, created for Washington Dulles International Airport in 1962.
Mobile mapping
Mobile mapping is a surveying technique that collects geospatial data, such as LiDAR point clouds and imagery, from sensors mounted on moving platforms like vans, boats, or aircraft.
Mobile mesonet
A mobile mesonet is an instrumented vehicle that takes surface weather observations of temperature, pressure, humidity, wind, and sometimes solar radiation in and around storms, first deployed during the 1994 VORTEX project.
Mobile money in West Africa
Mobile money in West Africa is the delivery of financial services, dominated by money transfers and payment accounts, over mobile phones by telecom operators, banks, and fintech start-ups.
Mobile number portability
Mobile number portability (MNP), also called wireless number portability, is a regulated telecom facility that lets a customer keep their mobile number when changing service provider, lowering barriers to switching.
Mobile payment
A mobile payment, also called mobile money, is a payment initiated and authorized on a mobile device such as a smartphone, in place of cash or a card.
Mobile phone
A mobile phone, also known as a cellular telephone or cell phone, is a portable telephone that connects to a network through radio links rather than wires.
Mobile phone jammer
A mobile phone jammer, or cell phone jammer, is a radio transmitter that blocks cell phone communications, illegal for private use in the United States.
Mobile phone signal
Mobile phone signal, also called cell phone reception, is the radio-frequency link between a handset and a cellular base station, shown as bars and varying with terrain, buildings, and frequency.
Mobile phone tracking
Mobile phone tracking, also known as GSM localization or mobile positioning, determines a phone's location from satellite, Wi-Fi, and cellular signals, powering navigation, emergency call routing, advertising, and surveillance.
Mobile phones on aircraft
Mobile phones on aircraft, also called cell phones on airplanes, must be used in airplane mode under US and European rules adopted since 2013, with voice calls prohibited.
Mobile radio telephone
Mobile radio telephone is a pre-cellular radiotelephone system connecting vehicle telephones to the public phone network, first offered commercially by AT&T in St. Louis in 1946.
Mobile Riverine Force
Mobile Riverine Force (MRF), also Task Force 117 or the Riverines: joint US Army-Navy riverine force of the 2nd Brigade, 9th Infantry Division and Navy River Assault Squadrons, fighting Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta from 1967 to 1969.
Mobile robotic chemist
The mobile robotic chemist is a free-roaming laboratory robot built at the University of Liverpool that autonomously decides which experiments to run in an unmodified wet chemistry lab.
Mobile Suit Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム) is a 43-episode Japanese anime series broadcast from 1979 to 1980, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and credited with pioneering the real robot genre.
Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム) (1981 film)
Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム) is the 1981 Shochiku-distributed anime film, first of a trilogy re-editing the 1979 TV series' episodes 1–14 with new cuts, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino.
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (機動戦士ガンダム00)
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (機動戦士ガンダム00) is a Sunrise mecha anime set in AD 2307, where Celestial Being's four Gundam Meisters intervene to end war; two 25-episode seasons (2007, 2008) plus the 2010 film A wakening of the Trailblazer, directed by Seiji Mizushima.