interoperability
noun
Examples of interoperability in a Sentence
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2024
To honor this commitment, the U.S. has annually staged naval drills near and with the Philippines — the latest of which happened earlier this week in combination with Japan and Australia, as a show of force and strong interoperability between the allies in the face of China’s territorial ambitions.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2024
Part of that anticompetitive behavior, the DOJ alleges, is that Apple's decision to not allow interoperability of iMessage between Apple devices and Android devices is part of that anticompetitive behavior.
—Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
The goal should be to achieve true interoperability rather than just collaboration.
—Andrew Metrick, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
Commerce just awarded a significant award to doing large-scale, transparent interoperability testing, allowing telecoms from all around the world to come test with different kinds of gear.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
Incumbents with market power fight tooth and nail to prevent interoperability and portability.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
Starting with users in three countries—the U.S., Canada, and Japan—Meta’s Threads app now allows interoperability with other fediverse social networks like Mastodon.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
The shift toward interoperability will first include text messages, images, voice messages, videos, and files sent from one person to another.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2024
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1965, in the meaning defined above
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