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How to pronounce portability in English?

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Type Words
Type of movability, movableness
Derivation portable

Examples of portability

portability
Netbooks'popularity largely boils down to the marriage of portability and price.
From the philly.com
Haskal says the portability and functionality of the phone offers many benefits.
From the washingtonpost.com
These group-based plans add costs, are inflexible and don't provide portability.
From the orlandosentinel.com
If you experience sudden appreciation of assets, you should not use portability.
From the forbes.com
The regulation was put in place in order to implement mobile number portability.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And what you trade in features, you make up for in portability and battery life.
From the techcrunch.com
Demand surged in the new century due to its relative simplicity and portability.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Advanced display systems may imitate paper in their flexibility and portability.
From the sciencedaily.com
Portability is one of the things that make marriage different from civil union.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • The quality of being light enough to be carried
  • (portable) a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried
  • (portable) easily or conveniently transported; "a portable television set"
  • (portable) of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull; "a portable outboard motor"
  • In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library). ...
  • The portability of social security benefits is the ability of workers to preserve, maintain, and transfer acquired social security rights and social security rights in the process of being acquired from one private, occupational, or public social security scheme to another. ...
  • Portability is one of the key concepts of high-level programming. Portability is the software codebase feature to be able to reuse the existing code instead of creating new code when moving software from an environment to another. ...
  • A portable toilet; a self-contained outhouse; Any temporary building that is portable, especially one located at a school; A hand-held video gaming device; a portable computer; Able to be carried or easily moved; Of software, able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems
  • A portable mortgage is a mortgage that can be transferred from one property to another. This is particularly useful if you sell one home and buy another.