PORTABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does portability mean? 

• PORTABILITY (noun)
  The noun PORTABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being light enough to be carried

  Familiarity information: PORTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being light enough to be carried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("portability" is a kind of...):

movability; movableness (the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged)

Derivation:

portable (easily or conveniently transported)

 Context examples 

Standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to address Federal requirements for the interoperability of different systems, for the portability of data and software, and for computer security.

(Federal Information Processing Standards, NCI Thesaurus)

HIPAA amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to provide improved portability and continuity of health insurance coverage, extending earlier provisions under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA).

(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, NCI Thesaurus)