transferability
nounEtymology From transfer + -ability.
1
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
The capacity of goods to be transported (linked to their value versus bulk).
3
Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The invariance of properties associated with an atom (or fragment) present in a variety of molecules.
- Derived terms
- nontransferability, non-transferability