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US
/kəmˈpætəbəɫ/
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[ UK /kəmpˈætəbəl/ ]
[ UK /kəmpˈætəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Otherwise this unknowable is not only compatible with knowledge but is the efficacity of knowledge, perhaps of all possible knowledge, assuming the world is like this (as opposed to the Blakean world). Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.
