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incompatibility

  • a word derived from incompatible.
    incompatible
    adjective
    not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony.

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Penn State researchers have now developed an approach designed to overcome that incompatibility.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Intel has long dominated the server chip market, Windsor said, while Arm-based chips “have often floundered” due to incompatibility with legacy software systems in data centers.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026

Without repeated low-stakes exposure, we can’t distinguish real incompatibility from bad first impressions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

They are seeking a declaration of incompatibility with Article 2 of the First Protocol of the European Convention of Human Rights, which is the right to education, and that the policy is also discriminatory.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025

This was the missing link in Darwin's logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee