Portable may refer to:

General

* Portable building, a manufactured structure that is built off site and moved in upon completion of site and utility work *

Portable classroom A portable classroom (also known as a demountable or relocatable classroom, portables, bungalows), is a type of portable building installed at a school to temporarily and quickly provide additional classroom space where there is a shortage of ...

, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide additional classroom space where there is a shortage of capacity * Portable toilet, a modern, portable, self-contained outhouse manufactured of molded plastic

Computing

* Portable object (computing), a distributed computing term for an object which can be accessed through a normal method call while possibly residing in memory on another computer *

Software portability A computer program is said to be portable if there is very low effort required to make it run on different platforms. The pre-requirement for portability is the generalized abstraction between the application logic and system interfaces. When ...

, software that can easily be ported to multiple platforms *

Portable application A portable application (portable app), sometimes also called standalone, is a program designed to read and write its configuration settings into an accessible folder in the computer, usually in the folder where the portable application can be ...

s, applications that do not require any kind of installation onto a computer, and can store data in the program's directory

Electronics

* Portable electronics * Portable device, a wearable or handheld device * Portable audio player, a personal electronic device that allows the user to listen to recorded or broadcast audio whilst being mobile * Portable computer, a computer that is designed to be moved from one place to another ** Compaq Portable series (1982–?) ** Apricot Portable (1984) ** IBM Portable Personal Computer (1984) **

Macintosh Portable Macintosh Portable is a laptop designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from September 1989 to October 1991. It is the first battery-powered Macintosh, which garnered significant excitement from critics, but sales to customers ...

(1989–1991) from Apple Computer *

Handheld game console A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers. Handheld game consoles are smaller than home video game consoles and contain the cons ...

, a lightweight, portable electronic machine for playing video games

Film

* Portable Film Festival at Portable.tv

Music

* '' Portable Life'', a 1999 album by Danielle Brisebois * ''

Portable Sounds ''Portable Sounds'', stylized as (portable sounds), is the third full-length studio album from Christian pop rock and hip hop artist tobyMac. It was released on February 20, 2007, and debuted at No. 10 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The album inc ...

'' a 2007 album by TobyMac.

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