ubiquitous

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.2 Synonyms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Related terms 1.3.5 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin ubique, everywhere

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/, SAMPA: /ju:"bIkwIt@s/
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[edit] Adjective

ubiquitous (not comparable)

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

[edit] 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, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai

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

[edit] Synonyms

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

[edit] Derived terms

• ubiquitously

[edit] Related terms

• ubiquarian
• ubiquity

[edit] Translations