ubiquiter

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English

Etymology

From Latin ubique (everywhere) +‎ -er.

Noun

ubiquiter (plural ubiquiters)

  1. (rare) A microorganism that can be found in most types of environment.
    • 1985, Gerhard Rheinheimer, Aquatic Microbiology, page 185:
      Frequently they are widely distributed forms (ubiquiters) which require high concentrations of easily assimilable nutrients.
  2. (obsolete) A ubiquitarian.
    • 1634-44, Aberdeen (Scotland). Town Council, Aberdeen Council Letters::
      Let me be aquent off your mynd heirin with the first for I can not be ane ubiquiter, and all is one to me quhither I be at hom or abrod, bot louk ye to the touns best and worst and I sal obay, bot as said is let me know in tym.
    • 1844, William Maxwell Gunn (ed), Select works of Robert Rollock:
      If one go to Germany, he will be an Ubiquiter, and in Rome a Papist, in Scotland a Christian, — in as many places as many forms.

Adjective

ubiquiter (comparative more ubiquiter, superlative most ubiquiter)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Ubiquitous, widespread.
    • 1959, XVIth International Veterinary Congress, Madrid, 21-27 May, 1959:
      In the pigwashes prepared with well-waters of high nitrate-content —under certain conditions— the different ubiquiter, facultative anaerobe saprophyte soil-bacteria reduce the nitrate to nitrite in sufficient quantity to poison the animals.