INTEROPERABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interoperability mean? 

• INTEROPERABILITY (noun)
  The noun INTEROPERABILITY has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) the ability to exchange and use information (usually in a large heterogeneous network made up of several local area networks)

  Familiarity information: INTEROPERABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTEROPERABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) the ability to exchange and use information (usually in a large heterogeneous network made up of several local area networks)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("interoperability" is a kind of...):

ability (the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Derivation:

interoperable (able to exchange and use information)

 Context examples 

Devices that do not send or receive adequate signals (this speaks to the interoperability between devices).

(Device Communications Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to address Federal requirements for the interoperability of different systems, for the portability of data and software, and for computer security.

(Federal Information Processing Standards, NCI Thesaurus)

A cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States.

(Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, NCI Thesaurus)