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Technological incompatibility can render devices like your phone useless overseas.
They were agreed on only one thing: their incompatibility.
The problem was a basic incompatibility of Canadian and American regulations.

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incompatibility | Business English

incompatibility
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌɪnkəmˌpætəˈbɪləti/uspluralincompatibilities
the fact that two things are so different that they cannot both happen, be correct, or be accepted at the same time:
incompatibility between sth (and sth)In design, there seems to be an inherent incompatibility between speed and durability.
incompatibility with sthA closer look at the plans reveals their complete incompatibility with environmental concerns.
IT
the fact that two pieces of equipment, software, etc. cannot work together:
incompatibility with sthThe most serious problem is incompatibility with existing drives.
incompatibility between sth (and sth)An incompatibility between the two pieces of software prevents them from being used together.
Be sure to buy certified products to avoid incompatibilities.
HR
the fact that two people are not able to work well together, or that a person cannot work well within a company:
Here are some warning signs of incompatibility that companies look for during interviews.
incompatibility between sb (and sb)problems caused by perceived incompatibilities between team members

Examples of incompatibility

incompatibility
Incompatibility of indefinite subjects with progressive aspect must be due to the fact that middles in the progressive describe specific, ongoing events.
This controversy between different governmental agencies underscores the incompatibility between the government's social and environmental objectives.
Yet despite this affirmative reporting obligation, some critics allege serious rights violations have arisen, which have not prompted reports of incompatibility.
Incompatibility of two sites therefore indicates recombination and/or recurrent mutations (homoplasy).
Intriguing parallels, proclaimed incompatibilities and fast-pace reconfigurations triggered by colonial confrontations are nowhere more obvious than in the arena of death.
They were thus willing to soft-pedal the struggle for equal rights, and thereby avoided the brunt of the ideological incompatibility described above.
The discrepancy relates to the incompatibility between patriarchal notions of feminity (discretion, self-effacement, and so on) and the exhibitionist nature of autobiography.
As such, this newer definition based on incompatibility is also more logical, because the absence of links between two decision areas implies independence.
Such ability is most likely mediated by parasite-host incompatibility, the general expression of antibacterial or detoxifying factors, and/or an inducible immune response.
These include the programming costs for having protocols directly handle byte ordering and word size incompatibilities between hosts.
However, such examples have provoked numerous responses by those who wish to defend the incompatibility of moral responsibility and causal determinism.
It is not scepticism as to female rule but rather the incompatibility of the respective claims of womanhood and those of rulership.
As such, the incompatibility argument turns out to pose a devastating challenge to moderately conservative theism.
The register's focus is on portraying certain signifiers as bearing a relation of simultaneous foundational identity and destructive incompatibility with their signifieds.
Although it is satisfying to see there is no threatening incompatibility here either, we would not like to shortcut the issue this way.
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