ubiquity

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u·biq·ui·ty

(yo͞o-bĭk′wĭ-tē)

Existence or apparent existence everywhere at the same time; omnipresence: "the repetitiveness, the selfsameness, and the ubiquity of modern mass culture" (Theodor Adorno).

[New Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque, everywhere : ubī, where; see k^wo- in Indo-European roots + -que, and, generalizing particle; see k^we in Indo-European roots.]

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Noun

ubiquity - the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)

omnipresence, ubiquitousness

presence - the state of being present; current existence; "he tested for the presence of radon"

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ubicuidad

ubiquité

ubiquit...

ubiquidadeubiqüidade

ubicuitate

ubiquity

[juːˈbɪkwɪtɪ] N (frm) → ubicuidad f, omnipresencia f

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ubiquity

n → Allgegenwart f; (= prevalence) → weite Verbreitung

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ubiquity

[juːˈbɪkwɪtɪ] n (frm) → onnipresenza, ubiquità

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One can demolish a mass; bow can one extirpate ubiquity? If a flood comes, the mountains will have long disappeared beneath the waves, while the birds will still be flying about; and if a single ark floats on the surface of the cataclysm, they will alight upon it, will float with it, will be present with it at the ebbing of the waters; and the new world which emerges from this chaos will behold, on its awakening, the thought of the world which has been submerged soaring above it, winged and living.

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He desired ubiquity. He wanted to be in two places at the same time, with the old master and the new, and steadily the distance between them was increasing.

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Under such circumstances she would put forth the silliest statements, such as: "No one can be in two places at once--unless it is a little bird," by which she one day roused, and not without success, a discussion on the ubiquity of the apostles, which she was unable to comprehend.

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In this way the film gently transitions us back from the ecstatic nonrepresentational space of computational ubiquity to the analog world of humanity and soft focus specificity of cinema proper, i.e.