ubiquitous

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːˈbɪkwətəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkwɪtəs
• Hyphenation: ubi‧quit‧ous

ubiquitous (not comparable)

1. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

   Synonym: omnipresent

   To Christians, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims, God is ubiquitous.

2. Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.

   Synonym: ever-present

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “’’Moby Dick’’, Chapter 41”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29:

     This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power.

3. Widespread; very prevalent.

   Synonyms: common, pervasive

• 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 Chetaskumar was there too.

• 2001-Introduction: Ubiquitous Computing: Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere?, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, by Neville A. Stanto

  Computers are ubiquitous, in terms that they are everywhere, but does this mean the same as ubiquitous computing.

• 2024-Pervasive Computing (Ubiquitous Computing) — EITC.

  Pervasive computing, also called ubiquitous computing (means "existing anytime and everywhere"), is the growing trend of embedding computational capability (generally in the form of microprocessors) into everyday objects to make them effectively communicate and perform useful tasks in a way that minimizes the end user's need to interact with computers as computers.

• 2020-Ion Channel Functions in Early Brain Development. Trends in Neuroscience.

  During prenatal brain development, ion channels are ubiquitous across several cell types, including progenitor cells and migrating neurons but their function has not been clear.

• 2024- Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal.

  Ubiquitous learning is a new educational paradigm made possible in part by the affordances of digital media.

• see also Thesaurus:widespread

• “ubiquitous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ubiquitous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “ubiquitous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.