Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or condition of being transferable. Also transferrability, transferribility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being transferable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The ability of something to be
transferred . - noun The capacity of
goods to betransported (linked to theirvalue versusbulk ). - noun chemistry The
invariance of properties associated with anatom (orfragment ) present in a variety ofmolecules .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being transferable or exchangeable
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Examples
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Literacy implies some kind of transferability which is, presumably, why educators like it as it assumes more than mere 'competence'.
dougbelshaw.com 2009
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Among them, we should have such formulæ as the single rate of profits and wages; which imply the 'transferability' of labour and capital, or the flow of either element to the best-paid employment.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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Certain personality traits, special talents, aptitudes, physical capabilities, experience, and the like are important (sometimes essential) for successful performance in many jobs, but they have narrower (or unknown) applicability or "transferability" across tasks and settings compared with general intelligence.
Blogbot - forsiden 2009
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In this case, I suggest to practice something which has a high level of "transferability".
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The problem with free and cheap college credits is transferability.
Tom Vander Ark: College Squeezing Out the Middle Class Tom Vander Ark 2010
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The problem with free and cheap college credits is transferability.
Tom Vander Ark: College Squeezing Out the Middle Class Tom Vander Ark 2010
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The problem with free and cheap college credits is transferability.
Tom Vander Ark: College Squeezing Out the Middle Class Tom Vander Ark 2010
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But it also makes transferability, transferable, transferee and transferor, which have only one r.
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The problem with free and cheap college credits is transferability.
Tom Vander Ark: College Squeezing Out the Middle Class Tom Vander Ark 2010
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The problem with free and cheap college credits is transferability.
Tom Vander Ark: College Squeezing Out the Middle Class Tom Vander Ark 2010
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