compatibly

compatible | American Dictionary

compatible
adjective
us/kəmˈpæt̬·ə·bəl/
able to exist or work with something else, or (of a person) able to live or work with someone else:
The computer software isn’t compatible with your operating system.
Levine said he is lucky he and his roommate are compatible.
Compatible also means being suitable or right for each other:
Their blood types are not compatible, so we cannot use his blood.

compatibility

noun[ C/U ]us/kəmˌpæt̬·əˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/

compatible | Business English

compatible
adjective
uk /kəmˈpætɪbl/us
IT
if a computer or other piece of equipment is compatible with something else, it is able to work successfully with it:
This software may not be compatible with older operating systems.
We offer our customers the choice between original and compatible ink cartridges.
compatible
noun[ C ]
uk /kəmˈpætɪbl/us
IT
a computer that is able to work with other computers or that can use the same computer programs:
In the 1980s, after IBM licensed the DOS operating system, companies started producing personal computers that were called IBM compatibles.
something that can be used with a piece of equipment from a particular manufacturer, instead of using an original item from the same manufacturer:
Should you use original toner cartridges or compatibles?

Examples of compatible

compatible
The first point to address, then, is whether the findings of variationist sociolinguistics are indeed compatible with such a model.
An emulation or a "compatible" is unlikely to meet the stringent hardware demands.
For instance, the findings reviewed in section 4.3 of the target article are compatible with a role for a motor emulator during visual imagery.
Mediated by the appropriate understanding of character traits, consequentialism and genuine friendship are, conceptually speaking, perfectly compatible.
Rejecting an evolutionary perspective, though, is perfectly compatible with being a staunch proponent of innateness and internal representation models of cognition.
We have taken the first step by casting the mental events in compatible dimensions.
Among the 30 target /nonword sequences, 20 sequences had a syllable structure that was compatible, and 10 sequences had a structure that was not.
In some instances, stem cells from compatible, related donors are not available.
They exerted their clout through traditional forms of aristocratic influence, compatible with accepted gender roles.
The philosophy and mission of the setting must be compatible with partner agencies to ensure true collaboration over time.
It is clearly compatible with affirming the existence of good probabilistic theistic arguments.
Conversely, accommodating monetary regimes are compatible with real wage restraint and full employment in centralized bargaining systems, while they encourage wage-price militancy in decentralized ones.
Neither of these concessions will prove fatal to the attempt to render recognition pride and humility compatible with one another.
The high percentage of parents familiar with chickenpox rash was not compatible with the sizable number of parents reporting erroneous histories in their children.
How can coercion, by definition a compromise of external freedom-that freedom, that is, ordinarily protected and vindicated by the doctrine of right-be compatible with right?
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