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Adjective

portable (comparative more portable, superlative most portable)

1. Able to be carried or easily moved.

   Synonyms:

   bearable, shiftable, transportable

2. Able to be transferred from one organization to another.
   • a portable pension plan
3. Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.
   • How do Java and C# create cross-platform, portable programs, and why can't C++ do the same?2012, Herbert Schildt, C++: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, page 6
4. Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer.
   • Starting with release 1.7, a portable version allows all Host Attachment Kit commands to be run without installing the Host Attachment Kit.2014, Bertrand Dufrasne, Bruce Allworth, Desire Brival, IBM XIV Storage System: Host Attachment and Interoperability, page 10
5. (obsolete) Bearable, endurable.
   • How light and portable my paine ſeemes now, / When that which makes me bend, makes the King bow.c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...

   Synonyms:

   abideable, livable, survivable, bearable, endurable, sufferable, supportable, tolerable, withstandable

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