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ubiquity
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"omnipresence," 1570s, from Modern Latin ubiquitas , from Latin ubique "everywhere," from ubi "where" (see ubi ) + que "any, also, and, ever," as a suffix giving universal meaning to the word it is attached to, from PIE root *kwe "and." Originally a Lutheran ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ubiquity , an add-on for Mozilla Firefox , is a collection of quick and easy natural-language-derived commands that act as mashups of web services, thus allowing users to get information and relate it to current and other webpages. It also allows Web users ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) The state or quality of being, or appearing to be, everywhere at once; actual or perceived omnipresence.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) [syn: ubiquitousness , omnipresence ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ubiquity \U*biq"ui*ty\, n. [L. ubique everywhere, fr. ubi where, perhaps for cubi, quobi (cf. alicubi anywhere), and if so akin to E. who: cf. F. ubiquit['e].] Existence everywhere, or in places, at the same time; omnipresence; as, the ubiquity of ...
Usage examples of ubiquity.
The oppressive ubiquity of contrived American monoculture has ingested and eliminated any threat of character.
Of the higher phyla we are rivaled only by the insects in our ubiquity.
Even at far less excessive states of illusory permeation, the immediacy and vividness of the standard virtual adventure was sufficient to make all but the most determinedly and committedly corporeal of humans quite forget that the experience they were having wasn’t authentic, and the very ubiquity of this common place conviction was a ringing tribute to the tenacity, intelligence, imagination and determination of all those individuals and organ isations down the ages who had contributed to the fact that, in the Culture, anybody anytime could experience anything anywhere for nothing, and never need worry themselves with the thought that actually it was all pretend.
On the grubby movie screen on which, earlier in the journey, the inflight inevitability of Walter Matthau had stumbled lugubriously into the aerial ubiquity of Goldie Hawn, there were shadows moving, projected by the nostalgia of the hostages, and the most sharply defined of them was this spindly adolescent, Ismail Najmuddin, mummy's angel in a Gandhi cap, running tiffins across the town.
If it once had some particular charm, that charm's gone, demolished to make room for the great American ubiquities: cheap hamburger places, cheap liquor places, a market for soda that impersonates more expensive soda and cheese that impersonates milk product.