Usability vs Handling - What's the difference?
usability | handling |
The state or condition of being usable.
The degree to which an object, device, software application, etc. is easy to use with no specific training.
A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
* Edmund Spenser
* 1864 , Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
(arts) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
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As nouns the difference between usability and handling
is that usability is the state or condition of being usable while handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.As a verb handling is
.usability
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Alternative forms
* useabilityNoun
Derived terms
* reusabilitySee also
* ("usability" on Wikipedia)handling
English
(wikipedia handling)Etymology 1
From (etyl) handlinge, hondlunge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
- at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings , &c.
- (Fairholt)