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portable
/ˈpɔɹtəbəl/
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What does portable mean?
adjective
- Able to be carried or easily moved.
- Able to be transferred from one organization to another.
- Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer.
- (obsolete) Bearable, endurable.
noun
- Clipping of portable toilet.
- A trailer or other movable structure used for classes at a school.
- Clipping of portable computer.
- A hand-held video gaming device.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɔɹtəbəl/
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While they uncovered the sheaves he stood apathetic beside his portable repository of force, round whose hot blackness the morning air quivered.
She was seen to go to the bachelor lodgings of Georges and take away a portable desk, which contained money and correspondence.
More book examples (3)
She might have been some two or three years younger than Wemmick, and I judged her to stand possessed of portable property.
Consequently, the French gardeners begin more and more to make use of portable pipes, or thermosiphons, provisionally established in the cool frames.
That is, each hill is inclosed by a portable box frame about 3 feet square and usually having a movable sash cover.