ubiquitous

UK/juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/US/juˈbɪkwɪtəs/

adjectiveC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,971 of 15,258leans written

Ubiquitous means seeming to be everywhere at once. The ubiquitous mobile phone, ubiquitous branding, now ubiquitous.

It is an exaggeration by design and is usually said with a note of weariness about something that has spread further than anybody wanted. The Latin behind it means everywhere, and it was first a theological term about God.

Definitions of ubiquitous

1adjectiveubiquitousSeeming to be everywhere at once.C1
“Mobile phones have become ubiquitous, even among young children.”

ubiquitous is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin ubique means everywhere, from ubi, where. The word was first used of the omnipresence of God.

Latin
ubīque — everywhere
Medieval Latin
ubīquitās
English, today
ubiquitous

Built from

ubī̆ · Latin — where
-que · Latin — each, ever

From ubiquity + ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”). Compare ubiety.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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ubiquitous in the wild

The term is most commonly used in the context of Western classical music and opera, in line with the ubiquitous use of Italian musical terms.
Maestro
Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing, a term he coined in 1988.
Mark Weiser
The origins of pervasive gaming are related to the concepts of pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, and ubiquitous gaming.
Pervasive game
Software useful for "integrating robotic technologies with technologies from the fields of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, sensor networks, and ambient intelligence".
Ubiquitous robot
Viruses in Fuselloviridae are ubiquitous in high-temperature, acidic hot springs around the world.
Fuselloviridae

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the ubīque family

ubiquitous

ubiquitous — used about once every 7,462 pages · #10,971 · point at the bar for the others

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ubiquitous

UK/juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/US/juˈbɪkwɪtəs/

adjectiveC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,971 of 15,258leans written

Ubiquitous means seeming to be everywhere at once. The ubiquitous mobile phone, ubiquitous branding, now ubiquitous.

Definitions of ubiquitous

1adjectiveubiquitousSeeming to be everywhere at once.C1
“Mobile phones have become ubiquitous, even among young children.”

ubiquitous is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin ubique means everywhere, from ubi, where. The word was first used of the omnipresence of God.

Latin
ubīque — everywhere
Medieval Latin
ubīquitās
English, today
ubiquitous

Built from

ubī̆ · Latin — where
-que · Latin — each, ever

From ubiquity + ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”). Compare ubiety.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

ubiquitous in the wild

The term is most commonly used in the context of Western classical music and opera, in line with the ubiquitous use of Italian musical terms.
Maestro
Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing, a term he coined in 1988.
Mark Weiser
The origins of pervasive gaming are related to the concepts of pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, and ubiquitous gaming.
Pervasive game
Software useful for "integrating robotic technologies with technologies from the fields of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, sensor networks, and ambient intelligence".
Ubiquitous robot
Viruses in Fuselloviridae are ubiquitous in high-temperature, acidic hot springs around the world.
Fuselloviridae

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the ubīque family

ubiquitous

ubiquitous — used about once every 7,462 pages · #10,971 · point at the bar for the others