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English

Etymology

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”), from ubi (“where”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ju??b?k.w?.t?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ju?b?k.w?.t?s/

Adjective

ubiquitous (not comparable)

1. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

   Synonym: omnipresent

2. Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
   • 1851 – Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 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.

   Synonym: ever-present

3. Widespread; very prevalent.

   Synonyms: common, pervasive

Quotations

• 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.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:widespread

Derived terms

• ubiquitously

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• ubiquitous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ubiquitous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ubiquitous at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??v???æs?tæm/

Noun

brivaracetam (uncountable)

1. The 4-n-propyl analogue of levetiracetam, a racetam derivative with anticonvulsant properties, believed to act by binding to the ubiquitous synaptic vesicle protein SV2.