0 the quality of being light and small enough to be easily carried or moved:
The advantage of the smaller model is its greater portability.
Campers like food pouches for their portability and long shelf lives.
There is a need for pension portability, to enable workers to take whatever pension credits they earn from job to job.
Health-savings accounts have been touted for their portability from job to job.
1 the ability to be easily carried:
This new gadget is quite bulky, sacrificing portability for ease of use.
2 the ability to be used for a different purpose or on a different system:
A projector's portability is important when you're carrying it through airport security.
Business travelers like the portability of jump drives like these.
Until recently, pension portability wasn't a big issue because so many teachers started and finished their careers in one system.
Number portability allows customers to keep their cellphone number when they change carriers.
Another possible reason for the apparent low mobility might be that before 2002 the portability and vesting rules had been more restrictive and more complex.
This condition seems natural if we want the encoding to preserve the portability of processes across the nodes of a distributed network.
It is often a topic of tension to balance the domain specificity versus the portability of a natural language grammar.
Adaptation to specific machine requirements reduces readability and portability of code and seriously complicates code maintenance.
