portability.

The ease with which something can be carried or transferred between settings.

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Words that belong together

• portability of equipment
• portability of benefits

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The equipment’s portability allowed the same procedure at several sites.

Portability of benefits depended on the receiving institution’s rules.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.