ubiquitous

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

• IPA^(key): /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/

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ubiquitous (not comparable)

1. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

   To Hindus, Jews, Christians, 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.
   • 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.

3. Widespread; very prevalent.

• 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.

• (being everywhere): omnipresent
• (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time): ever-present
• (widespread): common, pervasive; see also Thesaurus:widespread

• ubiquitously

• ubiquarian
• ubiquitin
• ubiquity

• 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