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transferability en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin trānsferōder. English transfer Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English transferability From transfer + -ability.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The ability of something to be transferred.
   • The transferability of his skills was truly startling; the confidence required to sell illegal documents was the same confidence required to sit in an office beneath a framed Harvard diploma and pretend he knew what he was doing until he learned the job. 2010, Emily St. John Mandel, The Singer’s Gun, Picador (2015), page 99:
2. (countable, uncountable) The capacity of goods to be transported (linked to their value versus bulk).
3. (countable, uncountable) The invariance of properties associated with an atom (or fragment) present in a variety of molecules.

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Deriveds

non-transferability · nontransferability