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Incompatibility

Incompatibility \In`com*pat`i*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. -ties. [Cf. F. incompatibilit['e].] The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incompatibility

1610s; see incompatible + -ity.

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incompatibility

n. The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilability.

WordNet
incompatibility
  1. n. the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time [syn: mutual exclusiveness, inconsistency, repugnance]

  2. (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)

  3. the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination [ant: compatibility]

Usage examples of "incompatibility".

This Rackham assignment involves all but insuperable incompatibilities: a face from a photograph taken in brilliant sunlight, by an amateur whose opinion of his own skills is grossly inflated, must be rephotographed, enlarged to several times its size, and imposed on the shoulders of a woman done in the studio by professionals.

Chapter 6 that this simple replacement of point-particle material constituents with strings resolves the incompatibility between quantum mechanics and general relativity.

For instance, we mentioned earlier that a sign of the grinding incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics in a point-particle framework is that calculations result in infinite probabilities.

To Kurt, to Smallways, to I know not how many more of the people in the air-fleet came the distinctest apprehension of these incompatibilities.

Although the resulting fluctuations are still substantial, this smearing smooths them out just enough to cure the incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics.

In his later writing mythology and poetry sank down behind his theological and philosophical preoccupations: from which arose incompatibilities of tone.

With the hybrids, there is never a danger of black torc, only of the incompatibility dysfunctions that pureblood humans may experience when wearing the device.

Quite aside from Alicia, there was too real a basis for our incompatibility and no chance at all that either could change enough to live with the other.

There may be some incompatibility between the capacitors and the onboard spike.

They progressed from a steady, explorative beat to wild variances of rhythm, suffering only minor incompatibilities of pace and accommodation: thrashing, sweaty passages.

Despite all the difficulties-language barriers, technological incompatibilities, building up a Crucian infrastructure that could make the machines that made other machines-fighter production had commenced earlier than anyone had a right to expect.

Even at their leisure, getting past all the incompatibilities of technology, protocols and language would be a lengthy and tedious job.

For example, the proximate cause of a marriage breakup may be a husband's discovery of his wife's extramarital affairs, but the ultimate explanation may be the husband's chronic insensitivity and the couple's basic incompatibility that drove the wife to affairs.

From the point of view of black holes, though, the Planck mass, being equal to that of an average grain of dust, is quite tiny) And so, physicists who speculated that tiny black holes and elementary particles might be closely related immediately ran up against the incompatibility between general relativity—.

And yet an incompatibility existed in that they were not covariant under the classical transforms of space and time coordinates between inertial frames.