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hand-portable

hand-portable adjective: of a device, tool, or piece of equipment, that is compact and lightweight enough to be easily carried, lifted, and operated by a single person using their hands.

Adjective

hand-portable (comparative more hand-portable, superlative most hand-portable)

  1. Of a device, tool, or piece of equipment, that is compact and lightweight enough to be easily carried, lifted, and operated by a single person using their hands.
    • Near-synonyms: hand-held, handheld console

Synonyms of hand-portable

Forms of hand-portable

comparativemore hand-portable
superlativemost hand-portable

Questions about hand-portable

What does hand-portable mean?
Hand-portable means of a device, tool, or piece of equipment, that is compact and lightweight enough to be easily carried, lifted, and operated by a single person using their hands.
What part of speech is hand-portable?
Hand-portable is an adjective.

Words near hand-portable in the dictionary

  1. hand-painted
  2. hand-pick
  3. hand-picked
  4. hand-picking
  5. hand-picks
  6. hand-portable
  7. hand-printed
  8. hand-raise
  9. hand-raised
  10. hand-raises
  11. hand-raising

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