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Incompatibly

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Adverb

1. incompatibly

without compatibility

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Incompatibly

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adjective
1. 
incapable of living or existing together in peace or harmony; conflicting or antagonistic
2. 
opposed in nature or quality; inconsistent
3. 
(of an office, position, etc) only able to be held by one person at a time
4. medicine
(esp of two drugs or two types of blood) incapable of being combined or used together; antagonistic
5. logic
(of two propositions) unable to be both true at the same time
6. (of plants)
a. 
not capable of forming successful grafts
b. 
incapable of fertilizing each other
7. mathematics another word for inconsistent (sense 4)
noun
8. (often plural)
a person or thing that is incompatible with another

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Incompatibly

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adjective
1. 
not compatible
; specif.,
a. 
not able to exist in harmony or agreement
b. 
not going, or getting along, well together; incongruous, conflicting, discordant, etc.
often followed by with
2. 
that cannot be held at one time by the same person
said of positions, ranks, etc.
3.  Logic
a. 
that cannot both be true at the same time
said of propositions
b. 
not predicable of the same subject without contradiction
said of terms
4.  Ancient Mathematics
logically contradictory
said of equations or other statements
5.  Medicine and Pharmacy
not suitable for being mixed or used together
said of substances having an undesirable action on each other or, when mixed, on the body
noun
6. 
an incompatible person or thing
usually used in pl.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Incompatibly

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adj.
1.
a. Not capable of existing in agreement or harmony with something else: incompatible views on religion.
b. Not capable of living or working together happily or harmoniously; antagonistic: incompatible roommates.
2. Impossible to be held simultaneously by one person: the incompatible offices of prosecutor and judge.
3. Logic That cannot be simultaneously true; mutually exclusive.
4. Medicine
a. Producing an undesirable effect when used in combination with a particular substance: a medication that is incompatible with alcohol.
b. Not immunologically compatible: incompatible blood types.
n.
One that is incompatible.

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