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Incompatibility   /ɪnkˌɑmpətɪbˈɪlɪti/   Listen
Incompatibility

noun
(pl. incompatibilities)
1.
The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time.  Synonyms: inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness, 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.



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"Incompatibility" Quotes from Famous Books



... or they are treated personally as enemies, and his share of the partnership property is liable to capture and condemnation accordingly, even though the partnership establishment is in the neutral country. The inference from these considerations is, that in all these cases there is an utter incompatibility from operation of law between the partners, as to their respective rights, duties, and obligations, both public and private; and therefore, that a dissolution must necessarily result therefrom, independent of the will or ...
— The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping • H. Byerley Thomson

... National Institute of Standards and Technology at the US Department of Commerce and maintained by the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues at the US Department of State. The data code is used to eliminate confusion and incompatibility in the collection, processing, and dissemination of area-specific data and is particularly useful for interchanging data between databases. Appendix F cross-references various country data codes and Appendix G does the same thing ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... laugh too, until she was almost killed, at this last sally. She did not wonder that the long word "systematically" had proved one too many for the children; she expected, the next thing, to hear of "indivisibility," or "incompatibility," or something twice as long, if possible; but, at any rate, the laughing or something else did her so much good that she felt well enough to get up and drink a cup of tea and eat a piece of dry toast, while the little girls were having their luncheon, and desperate were the efforts ...
— Little Mittens for The Little Darlings - Being the Second Book of the Series • Frances Elizabeth Barrow

... there existed between husband and wife a real incompatibility of temper, and the constraint of their position only added to the mutual repulsion which they felt for each other in private, though they did not dare confess it through fear of Napoleon's reproaches. They were married January 4, 1802, and had a son born the next ...
— The Court of the Empress Josephine • Imbert de Saint-Amand

... traces of earth to the waist. The rest they kept to themselves. I say no more, save that after the evening's performance (of 'All for Love') young Romeo came to me and announced that his betrothal was at an end. They had discovered (as he put it) some incompatibility of temper." ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine


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