transportable
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
transportable (comparative more transportable, superlative most transportable)
- Capable of being transported; easily moved.
- (dated, not comparable) Incurring the punishment of transportation or exile to another place.
- a transportable offence
Derived terms
Translations
Capable of being transported; easily moved
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See also
Noun
transportable (plural transportables)
- (Australia) A semi-permanent building, such as a portable classroom in a school, or accommodation for fly-in fly-out workers.
- (dated) A portable computer or telephone.
- 1990, Computerworld, volume 24, number 21:
- In some cases, the heavier transportables are replacing desktop PC models — but they are not leaving the office.
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “transportable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
From transportar + -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾanspoɾˈtable/ [t̪ɾãns.poɾˈt̪a.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: trans‧por‧ta‧ble
Derived terms
Further reading
- “transportable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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