transferability

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noun

The ability of something to be transferred.

UncommonScrabble 23

Meanings

nountransferability (countable and uncountable, plural transferabilities)

plural transferabilities · alternative transferrability · alternative archaic transferribility

  1. countableuncountableThe 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. countableuncountableThe capacity of goods to be transported (linked to their value versus bulk).
  3. countableuncountablechemistryThe invariance of properties associated with an atom (or fragment) present in a variety of molecules.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*terh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*térh₂t
  3. Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂ónts
  4. Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂n̥ts
  5. Proto-Italic*trāns
  6. Proto-Italic*trāns-
  7. Latintrāns-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéreti
  10. Proto-Italic*ferō
  11. Latinferō
  12. Latintrānsferō
  13. Englishtransfer
  14. Englishtransferability

From transfer + -ability.

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APA

transferability. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transferability

MLA

“transferability.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transferability. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transferability,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transferability.

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