incompatibility
/'inkəm,pætə'biliti/ Cách viết khác : (incompatibleness) /,inkəm'pætəblnis/
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The software engineer discovered an incompatibility between the two programs.
Definition
- Noun:
- The quality of being unable to exist or work together in a harmonious or congenial combination. This refers to a fundamental mismatch or conflict between two or more things, making coexistence or cooperation difficult or impossible.
- (Immunology) The degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (such as transfused blood or transplanted tissue). This is a specific, technical use describing a biological rejection process.
- (Logic) The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time. This describes a logical contradiction where if one statement is true, the other must be false.
Usage
- General Use: Describes a mismatch in principles, personalities, systems, or components.
- Technical/Medical Use: Describes biological rejection in medical contexts like transplants.
- Formal/Logical Use: Describes contradictory statements in philosophy, mathematics, or logic.
Examples
- General:
- The incompatibility of their work schedules made the relationship difficult.
- There is a fundamental incompatibility between the company's old software and the new operating system.
- Medical:
- The patient suffered from acute hemolytic transfusion reaction due to blood group incompatibility.
- Tissue incompatibility is a major challenge in organ transplantation.
- Logical:
- The incompatibility of the two witness statements proved one of them was lying.
- The philosopher pointed out the logical incompatibility of the two proposed axioms.
Advanced Usage
- "Irreconcilable incompatibility": A phrase often used in legal contexts (e.g., divorce law) to describe deep, unresolvable differences in a marriage.
- The court granted the divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable incompatibility.
- "Software/hardware incompatibility": A common term in computing for when programs or devices cannot work together.
- The driver error was caused by a hardware incompatibility.
Variants and Related Words
- Incompatible (adj): Not able to exist or work together harmoniously.
- Their personalities are fundamentally incompatible.
- Compatiblity (n): The antonym; the state of being able to exist or work together well.
- Software compatibility is essential for a good user experience.
Synonyms
- Conflict: A serious disagreement or argument, or a state of opposition.
- Incongruity: The state of being out of place or not in harmony.
- Discord: Disagreement between people, or a lack of harmony in sounds.
- Mismatch: A failure to correspond or match.
Antonyms
- Compatibility: The state of being compatible.
- Harmony: Agreement or concord.
- Congruity: The quality of being in agreement or corresponding.
Related Phrases/Idioms
- "A clash of...": Often used to describe incompatibility in cultures, personalities, or ideologies.
- The merger failed due to a clash of corporate cultures.
- "Like oil and water": An idiom describing two things or people that are fundamentally incompatible and do not mix well.
- Those two colleagues are like oil and water.
The software engineer discovered an incompatibility between the two programs.
Noun
- the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
- (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
- the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time