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Compatibility vs Consistent - What's the difference?

compatibility | consistent |

As nouns the difference between compatibility and consistent

is that compatibility is the state of being compatible; in which two or more things are able to exist or perform together in combination without problems or conflict while consistent is (in the plural|rare) objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.

As an adjective consistent is

of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.

compatibility

English

Noun

  • The state of being compatible; in which two or more things are able to exist or perform together in combination without problems or conflict.
  • (telecommunication) the capability of two or more items or components of equipment or material to exist or function in the same system or environment without mutual interference.
  • (computing) the ability to execute a given program on different types of computers without modification of the program or the computers. See backward compatibility and forward compatibility.
  • (computing) the capability that allows the substitution of one subsystem (storage facility), or of one functional unit (e.g. , hardware, software), for the originally designated system or functional unit in a relatively transparent manner, without loss of information and without the introduction of errors.
  • (structural analysis) the continuity or good fit of material or members or components while being deformed.

    • Related terms

    * compatible

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    consistent

    English

    (consistency)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
    • The consistent use of Chinglish in China can be very annoying, apart from some initial amusement.
    He is very consistent in his political choices: economy good or bad, he always votes Labour!
  • Compatible, accordant.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
  • (logic) Of a set of statements, such that no contradiction logically follows from them.

    • Antonyms

    * inconsistent * contradictory

    Related terms

    * consist * consistence * consistency * inconsistent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in the plural, rare) Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
    • The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from East to West? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from West to East? How then can you make these motions being conferred on the Earth ... to become consistents ?
  • In the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but could not be admitted to receive the holy sacrament.
  • * 1885 Catholic Dictionary 651
    • The consistentes stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens.

    References

    * * Catholic Dictionary (1885) * Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia - Supplement (1753) ----