Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to systems, especially of computers or telecommunications, that are capable of working together without being specially configured to do so.
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- adjective computing (of a system or device) Able to
communicate , andexchange data with another system or device.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective able to exchange and use information
Etymologies
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Examples
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Doug Fridsma, who directs the Department of Health and Human Services' work to make electronic medical records, or EMRs, become "interoperable" - meaning doctors can share and view them from anywhere.
SFGate: Top News Stories By LAURAN NEERGAARD 2010
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Doug Fridsma, who directs the Department of Health and Human Services' work to make electronic medical records, or EMRs, become "interoperable" - meaning doctors can share and view them from anywhere.
FOXNews.com 2010
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Doug Fridsma, who directs the Department of Health and Human Services' work to make electronic medical records, or EMRs, become "interoperable" - meaning doctors can share and view them from anywhere.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Doug Fridsma, who directs the Department of Health and Human Services' work to make electronic medical records, or EMRs, become "interoperable" - meaning doctors can share and view them from anywhere.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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Doug Fridsma, who directs the Department of Health and Human Services' work to make electronic medical records, or EMRs, become "interoperable" - meaning doctors can share and view them from anywhere.
SFGate: Top News Stories By LAURAN NEERGAARD 2010
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There is still no federal standard, he says, for so-called interoperable communications.
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"interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match-all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next.
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Analysts and some Pentagon officials say Rumsfeld's basic concern is that he needs European money and brain power to realize his vision of "next-generation warfare," a doctrine that requires smarter and often lighter weaponry that is "interoperable" among the four U.S. services and America's allies.
ANGRY ALLIES 2007
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-It also instructed Microsoft to make its software more "interoperable" with that of other firms.
E.U.'s Microsoft Case Could Endanger Vista Oxford Analytica 2006
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During the Kosovo War of 1999, Canada's CF-18 fighters had been upgraded and our pilots had trained in joint exercises to be barely "interoperable" with the U.S.
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