| correspondence |
| 1. n. Friendly discussion. | |
| 2. n. Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters. | |
| 3. n. An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome. | |
| 4. n. Newspaper or news stories, generally. | |
| 5. n. A postal or other written communication. | |
| 6. n. Postal or other written communications. | |
| 7. n. (set theory) A relation. | |
| 8. n. (theology) According to Swedenborg, a relationship of similarity between physical and spiritual things, such as that of light to wisdom, or warmth to love. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| compatibility |
| 1. n. The state of being compatible; in which two or more things are able to exist or work together in combination without problems or conflict. | |
| 2. n. (telecommunication) the capability of two or more items or components of equipment or material to exist or function in the same system or environment without mutual interference. | |
| 3. n. (computing) the ability to execute a given program on different types of computers without modification of the program or the computers. See backward compatibility and forward compatibility. | |
| 4. n. (computing) the capability that allows the substitution of one subsystem (storage facility), or of one functional unit (e.g., hardware, software), for the originally designated system or functional un | |
| 5. n. (structural analysis) the continuity or good fit of material or members or components while being deformed. | |
