Likeness vs Compatibility - What's the difference?
likeness | compatibility |
The state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.
Appearance or form; guise.
* Genesis, I, 26
That which closely resembles; a portrait.
(archaic) To depict.
* 1857 , April 25, , in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870 , Belknap Press (1987), ISBN 0-674-52583-3,
* 1868 , November, advertisement, in 's Home Magazine , Volume XXXII, Number 21,
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.
As nouns the difference between likeness and compatibility
is that likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity while 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.As a verb likeness
is to depict.likeness
English
Noun
(es)- An enemy in the likeness of a friend.
- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness : and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Synonyms
* similaritySee also
* copy * portrait * analogyVerb
(es)page 171:
- I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed : the other, perhaps, not so well.
after page 320:
- Every member of the family [of is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.