I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
downwardly compatible
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
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Output must be fully compatible with all the major word processors and battery life should be measured in days rather than hours.
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And because Lotus is the market leader, Microsoft has ensured that Excel is fully compatible with 123.
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The two are fully compatible so, for example, bold text appears bold without any extra effort.
■ NOUN
computer
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BankTrak is included to provide daily balance reporting, together with transaction details direct to a compatible computer on the customer's premises.
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Consider now a range of compatible computers .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Compatible couples generally share the same values and have similar lifestyles and goals.
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Certain kinds of drug are not compatible and should never been taken together.
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The success of a relationship depends largely on how compatible two people are and how well they communicate.
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The two businesses have compatible aims, and a merger would be to everyone's advantage.
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Unfortunately he bought a printer that was not compatible with his computer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible .
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It is functionally compatible with 24-pin generic array logic devices and functions at the same speed as the 16V8 above.
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Liver biopsy, performed in 10 patients, showed changes compatible with sclerosing cholangitis in non-AIDS patients in five cases.
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Quite often they have to be compatible , however, with paintings or with full-size sets or even with location shots.
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Recipes accepted as great and sacrosanct are not always compatible with sense.
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The very fact that one can choose, however, shows that the two figures are compatible .
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This is a double responsibility: two responsibilities which sometimes are not compatible .
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To put it in its starkest form, capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The first is that there are no systematic entailments between sentences differing only in respect of compatibles in parallel syntactic positions.