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Definition: Compatibility |
CompatibilityNoun1. A feeling of sympathetic understanding. 2. Capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "compatibility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Compatibility compatible. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | 1. A characteristic ascribed to a major subsystem that indicates it functions well in the overall system. 2. Also applied to the overall system with reference to how well its various subsystems work together, as in the vehicle has good compatibility.3. Also applied to materials which can be used in conjunction with other materials which can be used in conjunction with other materials and not react with each other under normal operating conditions. (references) |
Chemistry | The ability of two or more substances mixed with each other to form a stable homogeneous mixture. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A)a mechanical characteristic of a pick-up head which enables it to reproduce without damage the modulation of a monophonically or stereophonically recorded groove; b)a characteristic of the groove modulation which enables it to be played monophonically or stereophonically. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The ability of distinct families of digital circuits, usually digital integrated circuits, to interwork directly. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Meteorology & Standards | Suitability of products, processes or services for use together under specific conditions to fulfil relevant requirements without causing unacceptable interactions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CompatibilitySynonym: rapport (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: incompatibility (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Fitness, aptness; Adjective: relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey; sortance; case in point; aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation; (relation). |
Possibility | Noun: possibility, potentiality; what may be, what is possible; Adjective: compatibility; (agreement). |
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Health | ABO compatibility between donor and recipient is of minor importance in platelet transfusion therapy in most adults. (references) | |
This therapy is also noteworthy because of its compatibility with a range of other treatments patients may receive, such as pharmacotherapy. (references) | ||
Percutaneous connectors offer many research and clinical advantages, including MRI compatibility, ease of electrode testing, and processor upgrading, and they should not be abandoned. (references) | ||
Business | In response to these compatibility issues, VNPT has concentrated on four suppliers for switching equipment. (references) | |
A certificate for electromagnetic compatibility can be issued in Italy by the Istituto Marchio di Qualita'(IMQ). (references) | ||
In some areas, a network could be comprised of several different switching systems, which inevitably led to compatibility problems. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | Another government agency, the Center for Electromagnetic Compatibility (TSEMS), issues frequency licenses. (references) |
Economic History | Korea | The compatibility of goals between the Korean and foreign partners is also crucial to the joint venture's success. (references) |
Ukraine | Adoption of IAS and International Auditing Standards has been recommended to improve transparency and compatibility and reduce the shadow economy. (references) | |
Human Rights | Germany | Among other responsibilities, it reviews laws to ensure their compatibility with the Constitution and adjudicates disputes between different branches of government on questions of competencies. (references) |
Political Economy | Armenia | The Court of Cassation was formed in July 1998. The Constitutional Court is charged with ruling on compatibility of legislation and international treaties with the Constitution and resolving electoral disputes. (references) |
GERMANY | While many Germans value these structural features for their presumed benefits in terms of social security and relative equality, the public debate has focused on their compatibility with the desired economic growth and employment levels identified by the German government and Germany's competitiveness as a location for business and investment. (references) | |
Trade | Egypt | Some of Egypt's major trading partners have raised questions about the WTO compatibility of this Decree. (references) |
Taiwan | In 1997, the Taiwan authorities promulgated new electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) standards for computer and other electronic goods that threatened to disrupt U.S. computer exports to Taiwan. (references) | |
India | India has challenged the panel's authority to determine whether the balance of payments can be used to justify imposition of import restrictions and the overall compatibility of regional trade agreements with WTO norms. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, -- recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Interstate gaps should be judged on the connections they make and on their compatibility with community needs. |
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| "Compatibility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.65% of the time. "Compatibility" is used about 446 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.65% | 440 | 13,128 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.9% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 446 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "compatibility": backwards compatibility ♦ binary Compatibility Standard ♦ compatibility of programs ♦ electromagnetic Compatibility ♦ forward compatibility ♦ forwards compatibility ♦ low layer compatibility ♦ object Compatibility Standard. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "compatibility": binary-compatibility, cross-compatibility, plug-compatibility. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "compatibility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pajtueshmëri (reconcilability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | على نحو رحيم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 兼容性 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sluèitelnost, kompatibilita. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | overensstemmelse (conformity, correspondance, equivalence), kompatibilitet, forligelighed, forenelighed, blandbarhed (miscibility, mixability, mixing ability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | compatibiliteit (consistency, interoperability), verenigbaarheid, uitwisselbaarheid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مطابقت (Accordance, Concord, Correspondence), سازگاری (Accord, Adjustment, Amenity, Consistency, Rapport), سازش پذیری , دمسازی (Concurrence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhteensoveltuvuus, yhteensopivuus (affinity, goodness of fit), sekoituskelpoisuus, mukautuvuus (adaptability, compliance), kompatibiliteetti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | compatibilité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kompatibilität (compatiblity), verträglichkeit (amicability, compatibleness, digestibility, tolerance, wholesomeness), vereinbarkeit (consistence, consistency, reconcilableness), austauschbar (commutable, exchangeable, interchangeable, interchangeably, mountable, replaceable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμβατότητα, συμβατικότητα (conventionality), αρμονία (amity, concert, concord, concordance, conguity, harmoniousness, harmony, keeping, overtone, symphony, tune, unison, unity), ταίριασμα (match, matching, pairing, synapsis), διαλυτότης,συμβατότης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תאימות (symmetry), תאום (concord, coordination, correlation, matching, modification, symmetrical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kompatibilitás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | compatibilit , compatibilita. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 相性 (affinity), 相い性 (affinity), '換性 , "軟性 (elasticity, pliability, softness), コンパクト銀河 (combination, combination play, combinator, compact galaxy, companion, Compaq, comparator, compass, compatible, compulsory, compulsory figure, computer, computer allergy, computer animation, computer art, computer geographics, computer graphics, computer mind, computer tomography, computer utility, computer virus, computer-vision, control panel, convenience, convenience foods, convenience store, corned beef, industrial campaign, industrial complex, industrial system, paid companion of a wealthy woman, plywood panel, to compare, women presenting products at consumer electronic or car shows), 両立 (coexistence, standing together), 合性 (affinity), 合い性 (affinity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "か"せい, りょうりつ (coexistence, rates, standing together, tariff), あいしょう (affinity, fondness for singing, grief, love of reading, pet name, prostitute, sorrow), コンパチ"リティー , コンパチ"リティ , コンパチ (compatible), じゅうな"せい (elasticity, pliability, softness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 겸용성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | samsvar (accord, compliance), forenlighet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ompatibilitycay compatibilidade (consistence, consistency). (various references) compatibilitate (adequacy, consistency). (various references) совместимость (reconcilability). (various references) podudarnost (congruence), kompatibilnost. (various references) compatibilidad. (various references) kompatibilitet (affinity, interoperability, inter-operability). (various references) uygunluk (acceptability, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, advisability, appositeness, aptitude, coherence, coherency, comeliness, concord, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, convenience, correctitude, correctness, correspondence, decency, expedience, expediency, felicity, fidelity, fitness, handiness, happiness, opportuneness, pertinence, propitiousness, propriety, relevance, relevancy, seemliness, sufficiency, suitability), bağdaşma (consistency). (various references) сумісність, сполучність. (various references) tính tương hợp, tính hợp nhau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "compatibility": biocompatibility, histocompatibility, incompatibility. (additional references) | |
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"Compatibility" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: compatabiility, compatability, compatibiility, compatibiity, compatibilty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "compatibility" (pronounced kumpa'tubi"lutē) |
| 8 | -t u b i" l u t ē | acceptability, adaptability, convertibility, deductibility, electability, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, instability, irritability, marketability, palatability, portability, predictability, profitability, respectability, stability, suitability, susceptibility, unpredictability. |
| 7 | -u b i" l u t ē | ability, accessibility, admissibility, advisability, affordability, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, comparability, comprehensibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, durability, eligibility, enforceability, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, flexibility, gullibility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, infallibility, inflexibility, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, miscibility, permeability, plausibility, possibility, probability, readability, reliability, responsibility, sensibility, survivability, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unreliability, variability, viability, visibility, vulnerability. |
| 6 | -b i" l u t ē | immobility, mobility, nobility. |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | agility, civility, docility, ductility, facility, fertility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, incivility, infertility, motility, nonutility, senility, sterility, tranquility, utility, versatility, virility, volatility. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-i-i-l-m-o-p-t-t-y" | |
-3 letters: compatibly, optimality, potability, topicality. | |
-4 letters: amblyopic, bicipital, impolitic. | |
-5 letters: amitotic, biolytic, biotical, biotitic, biotypic, comitial, implicit, impolicy, mobility, motility, pitiably. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-i-i-l-m-o-p-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: incompatibility. | |
+3 letters: biocompatibility. | |
+5 letters: histocompatibility. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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