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com·pat·i·ble
(kəm-păt′ə-bəl)adj.
1. Capable of existing or performing in harmonious, agreeable, or congenial combination with another or others: compatible family relationships.
2. Capable of orderly, efficient integration and operation with other elements in a system with no modification or conversion required.
3. Capable of forming a chemically or biochemically stable system.
4. Medicine Capable of being grafted, transfused, or transplanted from one individual to another without rejection: compatible blood.
n.
A device, such as a computer or computer software, that can be integrated into or used with another device or system of its type.
[Middle English, from Medieval Latin compatībilis, from Late Latin compatī, to sympathize; see compassion.]
com·pat′i·bil′i·ty, com·pat′i·ble·ness n.
com·pat′i·bly adv.
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Compatibility
See Also: BELONGING
- Companionable as a cat and a goldfish —Anon
- Companionable [a mother and son] as a pair of collusive old whores —David Leitch
- Compatible as the stars and stripes on the American flag —Elyse Sommer
- Get on like a house on fire —Ngaio Marsh
- Get on like salt and iron —Loren D. Estleman
- Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore —Malcom Muggeridge quoted in Time, September 14, 1953
- Got along like Siamese twins —George Garrett
- Go together like a computer and an abacus —Anon
- Go together like apples and pie crust —Elyse Sommer
These ‘go-togethers’ provide endless opportunity for additional twists.
- Go together like bagels and cream cheese —Anon
- Go together like blueberries and cream —Anon
- Go together like coffee and danish —Anon
- Go together like ice cream and salt —Anon
- Go together like meatballs and spaghetti —Anon
- Go together like paper and pencil —Anon
- Go together like tea and lemon —Anon
- Got on like twin souls —Edward Marsh
- Irreconcilable as a jazz band and a symphony orchestra —Paul Mourand
- No more affinity for each other than a robin for a goldfish —Eleanor Kirk
- Struck [Flanner and Mike Wallace] it off together like a pair of lighted pinwheels —Janet Flanner
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| Noun | 1. | compatibility - a feeling of sympathetic understanding fellow feeling, sympathy - sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) |
| 2. | compatibility - capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination congeniality, congenialness - compatibility between persons harmony, harmoniousness - compatibility in opinion and action accord - sympathetic compatibility agreement, correspondence - compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests were in correspondence" characteristic - a distinguishing quality incompatibility - the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination |
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compatibility
noun
1. agreement, consistency, accordance, affinity, conformity, concord, congruity, accord National courts can freeze any law while its compatibility with European Community legislation is tested.
2. like-mindedness, harmony, empathy, rapport, single-mindedness, amity, sympathy, congeniality Dating allows people to check out their compatibility before making a commitment to one another.
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Translations
تَوافُق، انْسِجام
kompatibilitaslučitelnost
forligelighedoverensstemmelse
kompatibilitásösszeegyeztethetőség
samlyndi
zlučiteľnosť
uygunlukuyma
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
compatibility
n → Vereinbarkeit f, → Kompatibilität f (geh); (Med) → Verträglichkeit f, → Kompatibilität f (spec); (Comput) → Kompatibilität f; their compatibility/lack of compatibility was obvious → es war offensichtlich, dass die beiden gut/schlecht zueinanderpassten
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
compatible
(kəmˈpӕtəbl) adjective able to agree or exist successfully side by side.
comˌpatiˈbility nouncomˈpatibly adverb
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