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incompatibility | interchangeable |

As a noun incompatibility

is the quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilability.

As an adjective interchangeable is

freely substitutable may be swapped at will.

incompatibility

English

Noun

(incompatibilities)
  • The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilability.

    • Related terms

    * irreconcilability * incombinability

    Antonyms

    * compatibility

    References

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    interchangeable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Freely substitutable. May be swapped at will.
    • Eli Whitney's development of interchangeable parts was a breakthrough for modern manufacturing. Prior to that each part had to be made custom.
  • * 2014 , Ian Jack, " Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
    • The English, until relatively recently, seem to have imagined “English” and “British” to be interchangeable , as if Britain was just a bigger England.

    Derived terms

    * interchangeably