Adjective : interoperable weapons systems.    From Dictionary.com. 

There is still no federal standard, he says, for so-called interoperable communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2006] Reference

It also instructed Microsoft to make its software more "interoperable" with that of other firms.    From Wordnik.com.  [E.U.'s Microsoft Case Could Endanger Vista] Reference

How could a Mustang be "interoperable" with a Civic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Techdirt] Reference

Anyone in IT will tell you that while everything is "interoperable" it doesn't mean its going to work together, at least right away.    From Wordnik.com.  [O'Reilly News] Reference

The point: Although this new radio isn't exactly "interoperable" by the technical definition, for many listeners 'tastes, it could be close enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betanews] Reference

The June 19, 2008 "Canada First Defence Strategy" says that Canada needs to have "compatible doctrine" with the U.S., along with being "interoperable".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] Reference

Yet, as anybody who has been frustrated by supposedly "interoperable" software or computer devices knows, the definition of "interoperable" is open to interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quick and the Ed] Reference

I heard the word "interoperable," a word I have yet to hear outside Hill hearings and press conferences about post 9 / 11 communications and the 700 mHz spectgrum auction.    From Wordnik.com.  [B&C - Breaking News] Reference

But the other huge gap, Wolf, is interoperable communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2004] Reference

And most importantly we, as states, have to have interoperable communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2001] Reference

We have tried over and over again, we Democrats, to invest in interoperable communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2006] Reference

And one of the big problems is the failure to have interoperable equipment along that border.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2006] Reference

The plan also calls for constructing an interoperable nationwide wireless public safety network.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Dispatch: 12 great phones you can't buy; Experts forecast the Internet in 2020] Reference

It is also interoperable with physical WAAS appliances and router-integrated modules, the company says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cisco bolsters Nexus, Catalyst switch lines] Reference

What they do is they designate their own units, who will then train in a way that could make them interoperable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By National Security Advisor Sandy Berger] Reference

We work together, as I said earlier, on interoperable communications and lots of defense and intelligence issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2005] Reference

I mean they've been talking since September 11 about creating a national network for interoperable communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2006] Reference

We have installed interfaces which should make the archive interoperable with standard syntax queries from the Net.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

It was interesting that the word he used was it was his "understanding" that there were interoperable communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2005] Reference

And it is interoperable with Microsoft platforms, he says, making it possible to use products they have already bought.    From Wordnik.com.  [IBM to accelerate mobile unified communications] Reference

PAULISON: We have a communication system in place that will allow interoperable communications, particularly in Louisiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2006] Reference

But they should have radios that are interoperable so that in an emergency both of them can be switched onto the same channel.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 19, 2004] Reference

Curt and I are the sponsors of a bill on interoperable communications, creating a dedicated spectrum for emergency communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2005] Reference

PAULISON: We have -- we have a communication system in place that will allow interoperable communications, particularly in Louisiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2006] Reference

The two systems will be compatible and interoperable, and users from business to science to government in America and Europe will benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2004] Reference

The work we do here, both in the product and on test suites, is a means to an end: a rich interoperable platform that developers can rely on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft announces development of Internet Explorer 9] Reference

Whether it is port security, interoperable communications, or the readiness of the nation's health system, the story is the same, expert's say.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2006] Reference

As a condition of receiving approval for their merger last summer, XM and Sirius agreed to make it possible to produce such an interoperable radio by next summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Satellite radio: More interesting, more complicated] Reference

But we have made additional bandwidth available, and we continue to work this problem -- that is interoperable communications among first responders -- as a priority.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006] Reference

He also said that after spectrum auctions, the first thing that's going to get financed is the development of a national public safety interoperable broadband network.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander Howard: Federal CTO Makes the Case for Open Government and Innovation] Reference

TOWNSEND: Well, this is a question of taking existing capability -- that is, existing radio systems -- and making -- adjusting them to make sure they're interoperable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006] Reference

The 800 megahertz radio, the interoperable system that Minnesotans and legislators and politicians have put a great deal of money in, this was really the first real hard test.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2007] Reference

An interoperable infrastructure approach will rapidly lead to innovations and achievements, while limited, closed approaches will ultimately kill innovation and benefit very few.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Win-Win Smart Grid Vision] Reference