COMPLIANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compliant mean? 

• COMPLIANT (adjective)
  The adjective COMPLIANT has 1 sense:

1. inclined to comply

  Familiarity information: COMPLIANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLIANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inclined to comply

Context example:

children compliant with the parental will

Similar:

amenable; conformable (disposed or willing to conform)

lamblike (like a lamb in meekness and gentleness)

nonresistant (not resistant)

Also:

manageable (capable of being managed or controlled)

obedient (dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority)

manipulable; tractable (easily managed (controlled or taught or molded))

willing (disposed or inclined toward)

Antonym:

defiant (boldly resisting authority or an opposing force)

Derivation:

compliance; compliancy (a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others)

comply (act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes)

 Context examples 

It is a Java API that enables Java programs to execute SQL statements and interact with any SQL-compliant database.

(JDBC Driver, NCI Thesaurus)

An analysis domain that contains analyses done on non-compliant ADaM datasets.

(Non-Compliant ADaM Datasets Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A proprietary DICOM-compliant treatment planning software system.

(Nucletron Oncentra, NCI Thesaurus)

Blood tests at 12 months confirmed that 85 percent of people in the omega-3 group were still compliant with the therapy.

(Omega-3s from fish oil supplements no better than placebo for dry eye, National Institutes of Health)

It is only because our connection happens to be very transitory, and comes at a peculiarly mournful season, that I consent thus to render it so patient and compliant on my part.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

People with poor social support may have worse health outcomes because they have unhealthier lifestyles, are less compliant with treatment, and are more affected by stressful events.

(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Prefix to indicate an analysis dataset that is not compliant with a defined ADaM structure.

(Non-Compliant ADaM Datasets Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A tab-delimited, spreadsheet-based format that can be used for annotating and communicating microarray data in a MIAME (Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment) compliant fashion.

(MAGE-TAB, NCI Thesaurus)

Elinor, who foresaw a fairer opening for the point she had in view, in such a party as this was likely to be, more at liberty among themselves under the tranquil and well-bred direction of Lady Middleton than when her husband united them together in one noisy purpose, immediately accepted the invitation; Margaret, with her mother's permission, was equally compliant, and Marianne, though always unwilling to join any of their parties, was persuaded by her mother, who could not bear to have her seclude herself from any chance of amusement, to go likewise.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Clinical Informatics Shared Resource provides database and application support to the clinical research programs in Cancer Center including overall informatics support for clinical operations, patient registry services, development of clinical trials management applications, laboratory information management applications, privacy protection components necessary to maintain HIPAA-compliant research information services, storage, archival and other informatics services.

(Clinical Informatics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)