Associations to the word «Portability»

Wiktionary

PORTABILITY, noun. The quality of being portable.
PORTABILITY, noun. (computing) The ability of a program (or software system) to execute properly on multiple hardware platforms.
PORTABILITY, noun. The ability of an employee to move between different social security schemes without losing their contributions.
PORTABILITY, noun. The ability of a telephone subscriber to keep his/her number when switching to a different network.

Dictionary definition

PORTABILITY, noun. The quality of being light enough to be carried.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne