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portable

adjective as in easily transported

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This technique uses a device called a potentiostat, which controls voltage and can be as portable as a mobile phone, making it possible to create a compact forensic testing kit.

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The French New Wave's trademark documentary-style realism was made possible in part by technology -- the arrival of cheap, light, portable cameras.

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They brought portable weather stations and sensors, as well as swatches of different paving materials such as grass, mulch, turf, rubber and concrete to each site.

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A few spots down, Prater’s colleagues Michael Jordan, 32, and Jalil Hunt, 34, passed the time in a tent stocked with a TV and a PlayStation portable.

He said work was being conducted around-the-clock with nighttime shifts illuminated by portable stadium lights.

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