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transportability

transportability

5.4
How easily you can move something from one place to another
  • noun
  • /trænspɔːrˈtæbɪlɪti/
translation icon : transportabilidad
  • The transportability of the new camping gear makes it easy to take on trips.

Examples

  • The portable GPS tracker is great for transportability and compactness.

    Blog text (9)
  • Transportability is also an important consideration.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Although particular song selections are very important to the teenager, the guitar itself is the primary attraction with its associations of transportability, communality, rebelliousness, and freedom.

    Academic text (1996)
  • For many companies, the transportability of their products is crucial for meeting customer demands.

  • This chair's design prioritizes transportability, allowing it to be easily moved from one room to another.

Synonyms

mobility
vstransportability
92 3.4

Being able to move or change position easily

emphasizes ease of moving between places rather than general freedom
portability
vstransportability
8 3.7

How easy something is to carry or move

stresses easy transport across places not just lightness for carrying
movability
vstransportability
5.7

How easy it is to pick up or put in a different place

focuses on easy movement for relocation between places rather than local rearrangement
movableness
vstransportability
7.7

The ability of something to be picked up and placed somewhere else

highlights moving between places as its main concern rather than simple rearrangement

Antonyms

4 6.3

A state of no movement or not being able to move

7.8

Being firmly held in place so it does not move or change

How Portable

compactness
1 4.4
transportability
5.4
heaviness
3 2.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

transportability = transportable (transparent) = transport + able + ity

Formed by adding '-ity' to 'transportable', which itself is 'transport' + '-able'; the meaning follows regular English derivation.

Etymology

The word transportability comes from the parts trans- 'across' and portare 'to carry', the same root you see in portable 'easy to carry'. So, transportability is the quality of being easy to move from one place to another.