| 单词 | incompatible |
| 释义 | incompatible (ɪnkəmpætɪbəl ) 1. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If one thing or person is incompatible with another, they are very different in important ways, and do not suit each other or agree with each other. They feel strongly that their religion is incompatible with the political system. [+ with] His behavior has been incompatible with his role as head of state. Their interests were mutually incompatible. We were totally incompatible. Synonyms: inconsistent, conflicting, contradictory, unsuitable incompatibility (ɪnkəmpætɪbɪlɪti ) uncountable noun Incompatibility between the mother's and the baby's blood groups may cause jaundice. [+ between] Synonyms: inconsistency, conflict, discrepancy, antagonism 2. adjective If one type of computer or computer system is incompatible with another, they cannot use the same programs or be linked up together. This made its mini-computers incompatible with its mainframes. [+ with] Many institutions exchange information by hand because of incompatible computer systems. Collocations: mutually incompatible Sometimes you will find that, after ten years, you and a plant turn out to be mutually incompatible on account of its size. Times, Sunday Times These are mutually incompatible assertions on the part of both. Times, Sunday Times Since most of these epithets or comparisons are mutually incompatible, most of them must be wrong. The Times Literary Supplement Postgraduate students could accumulate valuable cultural capital by demonstrating that a literary work meant five or six mutually incompatible things at the same time. The Times Literary Supplement We have an increasingly disaggregated media landscape: not one conversation but thousands, often mutually incompatible. The Times Literary Supplement Everyone here has deeply held affiliations, inherited and totally incompatible with the views of their friends. Times, Sunday Times Are we just totally incompatible? The Sun However, the data streams of the two protocols are totally incompatible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Adjacent buildings would have totally incompatible electrical systems simply because they had been fitted out by different companies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Machine-code instructions for different families are completely different, and executables are totally incompatible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 不相容的 Japanese: 両立しない |
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