transferability

English

Alternative forms

• transferrability
• transferribility (archaic)

Etymology

From transfer +‎ -ability.

Noun

transferability (countable and uncountable, plural transferabilities)

1. The ability of something to be transferred.
   • 2010, Emily St. John Mandel, The Singer’s Gun, Picador (2015), page 99:

     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.

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

Derived terms

• non-transferability