incompatible
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/
incompatible
- Of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences
- Synonyms: irreconcilable
- (chemistry) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
- French: incompatible
- German: inkompatibel, unvereinbar
- Italian: incompatibile
- Portuguese: incompatível
- Russian: несовмести́мый
- Spanish: incompatible, malavenido
incompatible (plural incompatibles)
- (medicine, chemistry, chiefly, in the plural) An incompatible substance; one of a group of things that cannot be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or opposing medicinal qualities.
- the incompatibles of iron
- (philosophy) A consequent of a contrary.
- 2004, Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica, translated by Eleonore Stump
- Incompatibles are consequents of contraries. For example, sleeping and waking are contraries, and snoring is associated with sleepers. So snoring and waking are incompatibles.
- 2004, Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica, translated by Eleonore Stump
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