Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being incompatible.
- noun Mutually exclusive or antagonistic qualities or things.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or condition of being incompatible; incongruity; irreconcilableness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
incompatible ;inconsistency ;irreconcilableness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
- noun the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
- noun the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
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Examples
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In all of the written pieces I found Coyne specifically points out that the incompatibility is of a philosophical nature.
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So maybe I could say back incompatibility is OK – after all, the Wizards adventure products in 3e were all derivative “returns to” the original great D&D adventure locales, from the Temple of Elemental Evil to the Ruins of Greyhawk.
D&D 4e’s Out… And It’s Awful. Here’s Why « Geek Related 2008
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You get a short-term incompatibility that gets fixed when everyone implements a more inclusive policy or smarts about the new namespace.
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You get a short-term incompatibility that gets fixed when everyone implements a more inclusive policy or smarts about the new namespace.
O'Reilly News 2009
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You get a short-term incompatibility that gets fixed when everyone implements a more inclusive policy or smarts about the new namespace.
Planet XML 2009
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You get a short-term incompatibility that gets fixed when everyone implements a more inclusive policy or smarts about the new namespace.
O'Reilly News 2009
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You get a short-term incompatibility that gets fixed when everyone implements a more inclusive policy or smarts about the new namespace.
Planet XML 2009
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You get a short-term incompatibility that gets fixed when everyone implements a more inclusive policy or smarts about the new namespace.
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When we hear the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) lobbying strongly to amend Bill C-60 to provide additional legal protection for “access controls”, we need to realize this incompatibility is precisely what they’re lobbying for.
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Interrole incompatibility occurs when an individual plays two or more roles in a group and the demands of these roles may be incompatible.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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