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Definition: Portability is a measure of how well software runs on a variety of platforms. It can also be used to refer to how much work is involved in converting software to run on an additional platform.
Usage: "Our new conversion API is portable, and has been built on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux."
Posted by the3vil on April 28, 2009 at 02:54:01 Pacific

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