Compatible and Equivalent

Compatible

Compatible adjective - Having or marked by agreement in feeling or action.

Equivalent and compatible are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Equivalent" instead an adjective "Compatible".

Equivalent

Equivalent adjective - Being essentially equal to something.
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Synonyms for Equivalent

Compatible and equivalent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compatible" instead an adjective "Equivalent".

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  • Useful Notes / PC-98 Like the IBM PC (and Fujitsu's competing FM Towns line), it used Intel 80x86 or equivalent CPUs, and could run versions of MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, but was otherwise not IBM-compatible.
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