单词 | portation |
释义 | portationn. 1. The action of carrying; transportation. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] carryinga1382 passinga1382 carriage1423 portage1423 traduction1500 transporting1500 conveyancec1520 transportation1540 convoy1554 wafting1559 transportage1562 convey1587 portation1598 transportance1609 transport1611 weftage1615 conducta1618 vecture1625 vectitation1656 transit1753 messagerie1878 conveyal1886 intermodalism1979 1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques ii. vii. 49 Marchaundise, whereof there bee three kindes; Nauigation by Sea, Portation by Land, and vtterance of commodities in those places where they growe. 1654 R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 67 For the commodity of Traffique, and portation of Merchandise. 1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes & Sundry Sketches I. 218 Scandal is an impalpable essence, and Hermes cannot seal it up... Mist, fog, and steam,—particularly of the tea-kettle,—are the frequent vehicles of its portation. 1950 A. P. Rossiter Eng. Drama 58 An Ass..Fairest, strongest of his nation Expertest at back-portation. 1969 K.-H. Scheer & W. Ernsting Radiant Dome ii. iv. 148 I've racked my brain to understand..the relationship of the hypothetical eventuality of tele portation and temporal portation. 2. Computing. The action of porting or transferring software. ΚΠ 1980 DATA COMM. Internat. Microcomputers/Minicomputers/Microprocessors/'80 Proc. Internat. Conf. 86 This paper is one..of a series..describing design, implementation, and portation of a family of dedicated operating systems for multi micro processor systems. 1995 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 27 Mar. 53 Operating system, is Posix certified, allowing for possible portation to other operating systems. 1997 IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation 45 566 The applicability/suitability of diverse high performance computing (HPC) platforms is judged, based on both performance obtained and ease of code portation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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