Definitions for "PORTABLE"
A one-piece, self-contained cellular telephone. The newest ones are so small - weighing as little as 10 ounces - that they can be folded up and carried in a suit pocket or purse. Portables normally have a built-in antenna and rechargeable battery and operate with six-tenths of one watt (0.6) of power.
a one piece, self contained cellular phone
A one-piece, self-contained cellular telephone. The newest portable model phones are so small - weighing as little as 3.1 ounces - that they can be folded up and carried in a suit pocket or purse. Portables normally have built-in antennas and a rechargeable battery.
Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
A dishwasher designed to be moved from place to place on a set of wheels or casters. Portable dishwashers are designed to be hooked up to a faucet and to drain into a sink, and often feature a countertop.
A program is said to be portable if it is platform independent or it can easily be altered to run on different platforms.
Portable computer programs can be run with little or no change on many kinds of computer systems. Prototype The original demonstration model of what is expected to be a series of systems. Prototypes are used to prove feasibility, but often are not as efficient or well-designed as later production models.
Portable refers to software or files that will work on different computer hardware and software systems. A portable application is a program that can run on two or more platforms, but only if it is generated separately for each of those platforms. In other words, the programming code is what's portable - if you have a version of the finished program that runs on a Mac, for instance, that program file wont work on a PC if it is just copied to the other computer. On the other hand, if a document file is truly portable, it should work fine on another platform without any changes.
a computer application or SAS language element that can execute in more than one operating environment.
Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession. His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. Worgum Slupsky
A portable retirement plan is one where you can take your contributions plus any earnings with you when you change jobs. 401(k) plans are portable and you can usually leave the money with your former employer, roll over the money into your new employer's plan, roll over the money into an IRA or take the cash value of your contributions and any earnings.
etwork raphics. Pronounced 'ping' The PNG format is intended to provide a portable, legally unencumbered, well-compressed, well-specified standard for lossless raster / bitmapped image files. Full details available form: http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/~steeve/PNG/png.html
Keywords:  outboard, hull, boat, motor, outside
of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull; "a portable outboard motor"
Keywords:  endured, supportable
Possible to be endured; supportable.
Keywords:  typewriter, carried, radio, case, way
a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried
A two-way radio that is designed to be carried by a person.
This describes a mortgage that can be transferred from one property to another.
Most mortgages are portable. You can “port” your mortgage to another property. While you are allowed to “port” your balance and interest rate, you must still qualify for the new mortgage. You must give clear title to the purchasers of your existing property and provide a new mortgage to the lender for the new property you are buying.
A mortgage that can be transferred from one property to another at the lenderâ€(tm)s discretion.
adj. (of code) required to produce equivalent results and observable side effects in all conforming implementations.
a description of how easy it is to take code written on one machine or system and correctly compile it on another machine or system. This process is called "porting".
Keywords:  unix, command, version, program, one
A program that's portable can be used on more than one version of UNIX or with more than one version of a command.