Ubiquity meaning

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Ubiquity is the state of being very widespread or seeming to be everywhere at once.

When a new popular book seems to be discussed absolutely everywhere and by absolutely everyone, this is an example of ubiquity.

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The state, fact, or capacity of being, or seeming to be, everywhere at the same time; omnipresence.
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Existence or apparent existence everywhere at the same time; omnipresence.
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being, or appearing to be, everywhere at once; actual or perceived omnipresence.
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(countable, sciences) Anything that is found to be ubiquitous within a specified area.
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Origin of ubiquity

  • New Latin ubīquitās from Latin ubīque everywhere ubī where kwo- in Indo-European roots -que and, generalizing particle kwe in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle French ubiquité, from Latin ubique.
    From Wiktionary

Ubiquity Sentence Examples

  • To Luther's doctrine of the ubiquity of Christ's body he opposed that of the presence and activity of the Holy Spirit in the church.

  • Microsoft came late to the party, but they also developed a streaming capability in their Windows Media Player, and with the ubiquity of the Windows Platform it became used constantly.

  • They were allowed to hold land and were encouraged to become - what their ubiquity qualified them to be - the merchant princes of Europe.

  • Zwingli attacked the weakest part of Luther's theory - the ubiquity of the body of Christ; and Luther attacked Zwingli's exegesis of the words of the institution.

  • This required a doctrine of Ubiquity, or the omnipresence of the body of Christ extended in space, and therefore of its presence in the communion elements.

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