interoperability
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Definition of interoperability
: ability of a system (such as a weapons system) to work with or use the parts or equipment of another system
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Other Words from interoperability
interoperable
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This strategy is also animated by the rising adoption in Africa of smartphones, the growth of account-to-account interoperability, besides the ancillary industries like e-commerce facilitated by mobile money. — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, "Africa’s biggest bank is going after the continent’s informal markets," 28 Aug. 2019 Those open source adoption programs have had a notoriously rough ride, plagued with interoperability issues—just because one town changes its office applications doesn't mean its neighboring towns, parent state, or even its own citizens have. — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, "Office 365 declared illegal in German schools due to privacy risks," 15 July 2019 For Big Tech, interoperability would allow users to authorize networks to securely communicate with each other, much like how consumers with different email services can send emails to one another. — Sally Hubbard For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, "Facebook needs more than a $5 billion fine. It needs a new business model," 25 July 2019 The interoperability payments reached 308 million GHS ($57 million) by the end of March 2019. — Selin Ozyurt, Quartz Africa, "Ghana is now the fastest-growing mobile money market in Africa," 9 July 2019 Lack of interoperability means workers have to start each contract from scratch. — The Economist, "For the future, look to the past," 13 June 2019 The decline of interoperability and open standards has long been chipping away at the freedom of the internet. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, "If You Want To Fix Facebook, Tear Down Its Walls," 31 July 2018 For city and county authorities, the decision between BEBs and diesel or natural gas buses is still agonizingly difficult, involving considerations about infrastructure, interoperability, lock-in, and lifecycle analysis that are new to many of them. — David Roberts, Vox, "China made solar panels cheap. Now it’s doing the same for electric buses.," 24 July 2018 The lack of interoperability would also present major obstacles if the U.S. needed to fight a war alongside an ally whose advanced military equipment had been sourced from Russia or China. — Alexander Benard, WSJ, "America Needs to Sell More Weapons," 1 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'interoperability.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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