compatible
adjEtymology
from Middle French compatible, from Medieval Latin compatibilis (“in compatibile beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from Late Latin compator (“to suffer with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.
- derived from compator
- derived from compatibilis
- borrowed from compatible
Definitions
Capable of easy interaction.
- This printer isn't compatible with my computer.
Able to get along well.
- My neighbours and I are not very compatible: they're loud and I'm an introvert.
Consistent
Consistent; congruous.
- His actions were compatible with his sermons.
- She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
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Something that is compatible with something else.
- a computer company that sells IBM compatibles
The neighborhood
- antonymincompatible
- antonymnoncompatible
- neighborcompassion
- neighborcompatibility
- neighborautocompatible
- neighborbackward compatible
- neighborbackward-compatible
- neighborbackwards-compatible
- neighborbackwards compatible
- neighborbinary-compatible
- neighborbiocompatible
- neighborbug compatible
- neighborC++-compatible
- neighborC#-compatible
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at compatible. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at compatible. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at compatible
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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