transportable
/tranˈspɔːtəb(ə)l
/ /trɑːnˈspɔːtəb(ə)l/adjective
1Able to be carried or moved: the first transportable phones...
- Traffic along Brand Highway was delayed for a short time this week when police escorted two trucks carrying a transportable home from Bluff Point to Walkaway.
- Traditionally famed for their horsemanship and hospitality, many Mongolians still lead nomadic lives, moving their transportable houses or ‘yurts’ between summer and winter grazing grounds.
- The main criteria for its design were that it be modular, easily transportable, and able to be erected within a day.
2 historical (Of an offender or an offence) punishable by transportation.Something had to be done about the state of crime, the numbers of transportable convicts not yet transported....
- Common sense and usual business practice prevailed along with generalised desires to rid the kingdom of unwanted transportable convicts.
- The present plan would remove from that prison a large portion of the transportable convicts who ought to be supported by the public and not by the city.
noun
A large portable computer or telephone.
Derivatives
transportability
- The reconfigurable nature of the system design supports operations during deployment and early entry, and aids in transportability and battlefield mobility.
- The combined objectives of cross country capability and lightness for maximum mobility and air transportability demand efficient structural design.
- Mobility, transportability, sustainability, and survivability are the mantras.
- digestively
- digestivo
- digger
- digger hat
- digger's hat
- digger wasp
- diggings
- digging stick
- dight
- digibox
- digicam
- dig in one's heels (or toes or feet)
- digipak
- digit
- digital
- digital art
- digital audio
- digital audio broadcasting
- digital audiotape
- digital calculator
- digital camera
- digital cash
- digital compact cassette
- digital compression
- digital computer