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What does portability mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word portability? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The quality of being portable.
  2. (computing) The ability of a program (or software system) to execute properly on multiple hardware platforms.
  3. The ability of an employee to move between different social security schemes without losing their contributions.
  4. The ability of a telephone subscriber to keep his/her number when switching to a different network.
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The company is wise to focus on improving the portability of its super-premium ice creams.
The weapon's smaller models are still popular with security guards who favour its portability.
For many, if not most, game developers, portability is still not considered a worthwhile goal.
If you improve insurance portability, you'll have gone a considerable ways towards covering conditions before they get to be pre-existing.
Close attention is being paid to robustness, portability, scalability, security, and integrity in the development of our software.
This is more important than anything else except portability across different hardware architectures.

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