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compatibility

noun acclimation, accommodation, accord, accordance, adjustment, affiliation, agreement, amity, attunement, balance, coexistence, comity, common view, companionship, compliance, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congruity, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, consonance, cooperation, coordination, entente, equanimity, harmony, mutual understanding, rapport, unanimity, union, unity
Associated concepts: incompatibility

COMPATIBILITY. In speaking of public offices it is meant by this term to convey the idea that two of them may be held by the same person at the same time. It is the opposite of incompatibility. (q.v.)

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This cascading effect is set off by the combination of harmony, compatibility and a mature selling effort, and defines the term "marketing"--a strategy so successful that selling per se is no longer required.

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Sexual compatibility is defined as similarities in the emotional, cognitive and behavioural components of a sexual relationship (Apt et al.

Sexual compatibility and sexual functioning in intimate relationships

The compatibility tests have been conducted with the participation of member companies from both the RWPPI Round Robin Test and the RDVDC Compatibility Working Group.

RW Products Promotion Initiative (RWPPI) and Recordable DVD Council (RDVDC) Carry out Joint, Round Robin Compatibility Test

L=0 then the processor is set to run m compatibility mode.

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STA will schedule 'plugfests' (test labs) in 1Q 2004, in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire, to provide STA members with the opportunity to test all newly developed Serial Attached SCSI products for compatibility with Serial ATA and for interoperability.

STA announces completion of serial attached SCSI specification

Today, global organisations have on average two web applications for every native application, therefore the ability to assure compatibility to the latest browser is critical.

ChangeBASE announces Internet Explorer 9 plug-ins for AOK

As more users start to upgrade their PC's, they will be faced with difficult decisions regarding hardware and software compatibility with the system BIOS installed on the PC.

NEW BIOS WIZARD TECHNOLOGY IS PC INDUSTRY'S FIRST SOFTWARE APPLICATION TO TEST A PC'S BIOS FOR SYSTEM CRITICAL COMPATIBILITY

This hardware option, in conjunction with our software solution incorporating Insignia Solutions' SoftWindows product, demonstrates Apple's continuing commitment to cross-platform solutions and helps to remove compatibility as a barrier to moving to Macintosh.

APPLE UNVEILS MS-DOS- AND WINDOWS-COMPATIBLE POWER MACINTOSH SYSTEM AND CARD

The device's built-in wireless AP maximizes performance and compatibility with next generation IEEE802.

SMC Now Shipping New Draft 802.11n-Compliant Wireless Networking Products that Deliver on the Throughput Promise of 'N'

60 extends its already impressive database compatibility with new features, including support for the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), a set of low-level APIs used to interact with Oracle databases, as well as extensions for Sybase and Informix.

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For Apple to accuse us of impropriety is to discredit the technical innovations we have achieved in our Quorum Compatibility Engine and Latitude product.

QUORUM FILES DECLARATORY JUDGMENT ACTION AGAINST APPLE COMPUTER; SUIT SEEKS RELIEF FROM ALLEGATIONS OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT INFRINGEMENT

NASDAQ:ZHNE), a global provider of advanced communications equipment and a leader in VoIP, IPTV, and Ethernet over both copper and fiber access lines, announced today that Nortel1 has completed compatibility testing of Zhone's MALC Access Concentrator / SLMS with Nortel's Communication Server 2000 softswitch.