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Definition of Portative
1. a. Portable.
Definition of Portative
1. Adjective. portable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Portative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portative
Literary usage of Portative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Small Motors, Transformers, Electromagnets: A Practical Presentation of by Hugh Montgomery Stoller, Frank Eugene Austin, Edwin Wilbur Seeger, American Technical Society (1920)
"The problem of designing a portative, or holding, magnet is quite different ...
With the portative magnet the conditions are reversed, and the magnet is so ..."
2. Electricity and Magnetism by Eric Mary Gerard, R. C. Duncan, Louis Duncan (1897)
"portative Power of a Magnet.—Let us consider a cylinder of indefinite length,
... This is the portative force of the magnet per unit surface. ..."
3. The Story of the Organ by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"... of two instruments at Pompeii which are probably portative organs—The state
of music in ancient Rome—Greek slaves as performers—Gigantic instruments ..."
4. On the Action of Examinations Considered as a Means of Selection by Henry Latham (1877)
"... dates of their accession, and the principal events of each reign, purely by
help of the portative Memory, as he would learn the parts of a Latin verb. ..."
5. On the Action of Examinations Considered as a Means of Selection by Henry Latham (1886)
"The Analytical Memory differs from that j ust spoken of in this respect; whereas
the portative Memory supplies the connection or succession of notions, ..."
6. Lectures on Orthopaedic Surgery: Delivered at the Brooklyn Medical and by Louis Bauer (1868)
"portative splints and braces of Davis, Vedder, Harwell, Sayre, Andrews, and
Bauer.—Their respective therapeutical value.—Treatment of affections of the ..."
7. Manual of Telegraphy by W. Williams (1885)
"Law of portative Force of a Magnet. LAWS OF MAGNETISM. Magnetic attractions and
repulsions are ... The portative force p 2 of a saturated horse-shoe ..."
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