portability
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4.3
- noun
- /ˌpɔːrtəˈbɪləti/
- Specialized
- Unfortunately, portability and processing power will always be at odds with each other, forcing a tradeoff.
- enhance portability
Examples
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The much-celebrated Data Portability Working Group has become a subject of heated debate.
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Our method is general and provides programs with increased portability.
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For security and portability reasons, it was never intended to be a thin client or a website.
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However, Spring is designed for portability between application servers, and we also tested our code on other products.
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There's also a large focus on portability and standardized interfaces.
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NeXTstep (the combined GUI/OS that ran on the hardware) was built for portability and ran on multiple processors.
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There is also a sub-project code-named Glance, an image discovery and delivery service that enables portability of workloads between OpenStack clouds.
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MPI's derived datatypes further enhance the portability and efficiency of MPI codes by enabling the architect to communicate noncontiguous data with a single MPI function call.
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Software developers focus on increasing portability so that applications can run on various operating systems.
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With enhanced portability, the program can easily be transferred between computers without needing adjustments.
Synonyms
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6.1
How easily something works the same in different places or systems
Antonyms
How Portable
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4.3
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Portability comes from the Latin root portare, 'to carry', and in computers it keeps that image: software that is 'carried' from one computer or system to another. So software portability means a program can run on different systems with little or no change.