It's the protective layer that lets virtually incompatible systems get in bed together.

France has cut card fraud by more than 80% using a similar, but incompatible system.

Communications can certainly solve most of the problems of apparently incompatible systems, given a little effort.

We don't want to abandon the PC for a new and incompatible system.

The two nations are nascent military rivals with incompatible political systems.

However, not all incompatible systems are recognized at first sight.

Adjacent buildings would have totally incompatible electrical systems simply because they had been fitted out by different companies.

In Japan, both the mainframe and personal computer markets are more fragmented, with incompatible systems.

Two different and mutually incompatible systems of diacritics are used.

It sometimes seemed, in fact, as though she had spent most of her adult life trying to make two incompatible systems fit together.