Definition for: ubiquitous

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English

Etymology

From Latin ubique , everywhere

Pronunciation

• IPA: /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/ , SAMPA: /ju:"bIkwIt@s/

Adjective

ubiquitous ( not comparable )

1. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
2. Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.

Quotations

• 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick , Ch. 41

  One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous ; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.

• 1927-1929 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V (XII) The Stain of Indigo

  I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Rajkumar was there too.

Synonyms

• ( being everywhere ): omnipresent
• ( seeming to appear everywhere at the same time ): ever-present

Derived terms

• ubiquitously

Related terms

• ubiquarian
• ubiquity

Translations

being everywhere

seeming to appear everywhere at the same time

Other Translations for "ubiquitous"

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Sign Language Spelling
Morse Code		ubiquitous
Hex		f5 e2 69 71 f5 69 74 6f f5 f3
Pig Latin		ubiquitousway

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