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transportable, a. and n.|trɑːnˈspɔətəb(ə)l, træn-|
[f. transport v. + -able. Cf. F. transportable (1812 in Hatz.-Darm.); mod.L. transportābilis.]
A. adj.
1. a. Capable of being transported.
1582Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 530 In uptaking of the custum of all gudis transportabill furth of this realme. 1642Declar. Lords & Comm. to Gen. Assemb. Ch. Scot. 13 [Soldiers] to be sent presently over to reside amongst them, or declared transportable. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 680 A Chest of Copper,..transportable by means of woodden barrs like a Sedan or Chair. 1726[see transport v. 2 a]. 1881J. Russell Haigs v. 105 Bringing off whatever was transportable on its own four feet. 1904R. Small Hist. U.P. Congregat. II. 1 The Presbytery declared him transportable.
b. spec. of computer software: that can be used on more than one kind of machine.
1972Rep. Nat. Res. Council Canada No. 13659 (ERIC Rep. No. 160126) 4 Facilities for producing ‘transportable’ computer based course materials. 1977Proc. Internat. Symp. Computer Aided Seismic Analysis 121/1 PAL, through its structured logic and easily transportable software, provides a framework which will readily accept modification and expansion. 1983Mini-Micro Systems Feb. 71/3 dec is encouraging software producers in Europe to make software transportable between countries.
c. Of a computer (see quots. 1983, 1985).
1982Byte Nov. 6 Portable..refers to a small, transportable computer on which you can touch-type. 1983Times 31 May 20/4 The new breed of portable computers makes some of the older machines..look immovable by comparison... Once known as portable computers, these machines are now dubbed transportable computers, to distinguish them from smaller machines that are more easily moved. 1985Pract. Computing Jan. 70/3 Although called the Portable, the machine is..what is more normally termed transportable. That is, it is a mains⁓powered unit which..is too heavy to be carried around all the time.
2. Involving or liable to transportation.
1769Blackstone Comm. IV. xvii. 242 The statute..makes it a felony transportable for seven years. 1815Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) I. 323 It does not..appear that he ever committed any hangable or transportable offence. 1840Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 371, I remember once discovering that I was living in the commission of transportable offences at the rate of two a-day.
B. n. A transportable television set, computer, etc., spec. one which is heavier than a ‘portable’ appliance.
1959Daily Tel. 27 Aug. 11/3 The transportable [sc. a television] is something comparatively new. It has a carrying handle, yet is too heavy to be classed as a lightweight portable. 1971Radio Times 25 Nov. 35 (Advt.), The Deccavision Executive 17{pp} transportable—a black-and-white TV that gives big, bold performance wherever there's a mains point. 1983Observer 19 June 21/1 Although perception of portability differs radically, three categories can be discerned... These are the handhelds, the true portables, and the transportables. 1983Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Nov. 76/1 Despite the provision of a high level of computing power in such recent hand-held portables.., there always should be room for larger transportables.
Hence tranˈsportableness, the quality of being transportable; liability to transportation.
1727in Bailey vol. II. 1844 P. Harwood Hist. Irish Reb. 107 Transportableness for life. |