portable
A projector's portability is important when you're carrying it through airport security.
Business travelers like the portability of jump drives like these.
Until recently, pension portability wasn't a big issue because so many teachers started and finished their careers in one system.
Number portability allows customers to keep their cellphone number when they change carriers.

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portability | Business English

portability
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌpɔːtəˈbɪləti/us
the ability to be easily carried:
This new gadget is quite bulky, sacrificing portability for ease of use.
the ability to be used for a different purpose or on a different system:
number/provider/service portabilityWith number portability, consumers are less tied to one carrier.
application/software portability

Examples of portability

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Another possible reason for the apparent low mobility might be that before 2002 the portability and vesting rules had been more restrictive and more complex.
This condition seems natural if we want the encoding to preserve the portability of processes across the nodes of a distributed network.
It is often a topic of tension to balance the domain specificity versus the portability of a natural language grammar.
Adaptation to specific machine requirements reduces readability and portability of code and seriously complicates code maintenance.
A large part of the research of that time was devoted to portability issues.
With temporary migration, pension portability clearly becomes an issue.
The main advantage is that the parallel mechanism is more rigid and provides better accuracy and portability than a serial one.
With the performance having been evaluated, the next step is to see how well the stochastic parser does when it comes to portability.
As a result, a named entity recognition system with better performance and better portability (with much less training data) is achieved.
In this sense, the portability and ease of application of the comprehensiveness rationale insured the rapid diffusion of feedback effects.
Due to portability, constraints are imposed on the dimensions and mass of the system, which resulted in a compromise in illumination power.
Chapters 4 and 5 describe existing master systems with force feedbacks, classifying and comparing them as a function of their portability.
Performance and portability are attained simultaneously because of the modular construction of the dense linear algebra operations.
Other implementations of the most useful functionalities for resource development and maintenance are being investigated to achieve improved responsiveness and wider portability.
The byte code representation is used to achieve portability and save space.
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