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Compatibly

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com·pat·i·ble  (km-pt-bl)
adj.
1. Capable of existing or performing in harmonious, agreeable, or congenial combination with another or others: compatible family relationships.
2. Capable of orderly, efficient integration and operation with other elements in a system with no modification or conversion required.
3. Capable of forming a chemically or biochemically stable system.
4. Of or relating to a television system in which color broadcasts can be received in black and white by sets incapable of color reception.
5. Medicine Capable of being grafted, transfused, or transplanted from one individual to another without rejection: compatible blood.
n.
A device, such as a computer or computer software, that can be integrated into or used with another device or system of its type.

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin compatbilis, from Late Latin compat, to sympathize; see compassion.]

com·pati·bili·ty, com·pati·ble·ness n.
com·pati·bly adv.
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Adv.1.compatibly - with compatibility
incompatibly - without compatibility


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12) On one level, the subtitle indicates how it is only at the end of this journey that Dorfman finally comes to accept himself as bilingual, to reconcile himself to the two forces of his two languages, and to more comfortably inhabit a world where both English and Spanish function compatibly.
The generic qualifier can be compatibly used for the all components of the ICF.
 
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