compatibility

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

compatibility
    n 1: a feeling of sympathetic understanding
    2: capability of existing or performing in harmonious or
       congenial combination [ant: {incompatibility}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Compatibility \Com*pat`i*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
   compatibilit['e].]
   The quality or power of being compatible or congruous;
   congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of
   properties.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

compatible
compatibility

   <jargon> Different systems (e.g., {programs}, {file formats},
   {protocols}, even {programming languages}) that can work
   together or exchange data are said to be compatible.

   See also {backward compatible}, {forward compatible}.

   (1998-01-15)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

123 Moby Thesaurus words for "compatibility":
      accord, accordance, affability, affinity, agape, agreeability,
      agreeableness, agreement, amenity, amiability, amicability, amity,
      assent, bliss, blissfulness, bonds of harmony, brotherly love,
      caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, civility,
      clubbability, clubbishness, clubbism, coherence, coincidence,
      communicativeness, communion, community, community of interests,
      companionability, complaisance, concert, concord, concordance,
      conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence,
      congruency, congruity, consistency, consonance, consort,
      cooperation, cordiality, correspondence, courtesy, empathy,
      enjoyableness, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, familiarity,
      feeling of identity, felicitousness, fellow feeling, fellowship,
      fondness for society, frictionlessness, friendliness, geniality,
      good vibes, good vibrations, goodliness, goodness, graciousness,
      gregariousness, happy family, harmoniousness, harmony, hospitality,
      identity, intersection, intimacy, kinship, like-mindedness, love,
      mellifluousness, mellowness, mutuality, niceness, oneness, overlap,
      parallelism, peace, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry,
      pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure,
      pleasurefulness, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity,
      self-consistency, sharing, sociability, sociableness, social grace,
      sociality, solidarity, sweetness, symmetry, sympathy, symphony,
      sync, synchronism, tally, team spirit, timing, understanding,
      uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unity, urbanity,
      welcomeness

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