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US
/kəmˈpætəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /kəmpˈætəbəl/ ]
[ UK /kəmpˈætəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination
her deeds were compatible with her ideology
a compatible married couple - capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction
- capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
How To Use compatible In A Sentence
- Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
- The Prime Minister, who seems to make a fetish of showing that power is not incompatible with panache, is (or so his spokesman says) a Stones fan.
- To be reliable, a cognitive mechanism must enable a person to discriminate or differentiate between incompatible states of affairs.
- You can hook up two DisplayPort-compatible computers to a single monitor (and keyboard and mouse, obvs) without converters.
- Or, conversely, isn't the character of modern American life strangely illuminated by -- and compatible with -- that entity that is so often described as antithetical to it, the mafia? Critical Mass
- The modified expoxies, ie, those with plasticizers added to improve workability, were found to be incompatible with the fluorocarbon flotation fluids.
- In other words, simultaneous measurements can only be mutually compatible for observables corresponding to operators that commute with each other.
- The two needs seem incompatible, but somehow we will manage it. Times, Sunday Times
- I was indeed incommunicative and incompatible with the kids at my grade level.
- In fact, our lunar friend provides an instructive example of how a vulgar and dogmatic notion of ‘science’ can be quite compatible with the most arcane fantasies.
