incompatibility

incompatible | American Dictionary

incompatible
adjective
us/ˌɪn·kəmˈpæt̬·ə·bəl/
not able to exist or work with another person or thing:
Any new video system that is incompatible with existing ones has little chance of success.

incompatibility

noun[ U ]us/ˌɪn·kəmˌpæt·əˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/

incompatible | Business English

incompatible
adjective
uk /ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbl/us
so different that both cannot happen, be correct, or be accepted at the same time:
The aims of the two partners were so fundamentally incompatible that an outside arbitrator was called in.
incompatible with sthShe argued that his outside interests were incompatible with his role as team leader.
IT
not able to work with other equipment:
The file was in an incompatible format and could not be printed.
incompatible with sthEthernet and RJ11 adapters are incompatible with each other.
HR
not able to work well with someone or within a company:
Human resources found the two managers to be mutually incompatible.

Examples of incompatible

incompatible
So how are we to understand the aspiration to reconcile themes, which have typically been treated as incompatible?
A conflict of rights, all things considered, would generate such a problem, but we cannot have rights, all things considered, to per form incompatible actions.
Although not intended by these authors, their views suggest that theories which are typically considered opposing and incompatible complement each other.
The two schools of thought were not incompatible, however, and did not form two permanent groups.
As said, welfare contractualism is not necessarily incompatible with this understanding of the 'social right' to economic security.
Free-riding on the provision of collectively enjoyed goods (including a collectively provided minimum income) is incompatible with this basic norm of co-operation for mutual advantage.
We hasten to add that our proposal is not incompatible with other areas of laryngeal phonology, such as neutralisation and assimilation.
However, this more general rule is incompatible with the existence of joins which are needed for sums, as described above.
Plainly it could not have achieved this exposition plausibly if it were incompatible with his general notions of political obligation.
Evolutionary naturalism is, almost by definition, incompatible with an approach to religion that takes religion seriously in its own terms.
Moreover, patients' files were screened for possible diseases incompatible with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
It provided "a straw man in contrast to which the diverse-even incompatible-character of various streams of recent scholarship is obscured" (273).
But grammatical conservatism is incompatible with the observation that children's grammars differ in qualitative ways from those of adult speakers of the local language.
This assumption is not incompatible with the view that the constraints at stake are of a morpholexical nature, rather than of a syntactic nature.
While by no means incompatible in principle, as any politician will state, the demands of advocacy and of comprehension can be contrasting.
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