capability

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/ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/

noun 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

enormous

limited

The government acknowledged its limited capability to respond quickly to the disaster.

potential

proven

The team's proven capability to solve complex problems impressed all the investors.

human

The new smartphone has features that go far beyond human capability to imagine a few years ago.

VERB + CAPABILITY

have

Modern smartphones have the capability to take professional-quality photos.

increase

The company invested in new software to increase its technological capability.

lose

PREP

beyond your ~

Learning to speak fluent French in just three months is beyond my capability.

within your ~

Learning to cook simple meals is well within your capability.

~ for

The company has demonstrated a strong capability for developing innovative software solutions.

Definitions

noun

The power or ability to generate an outcome.

And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.

A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.

A file descriptor can be considered a capability that can only be leveraged using the appropriate system calls, passing it as an argument.

Enforcing a security policy means controlling the rights users can acquire to data. In a capability machine, a user’s rights are defined by the capabilities he (or a process acting on his behalf) can obtain and the access rights conferred by those capabilities.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually

capableness

noun — an aptitude that may be developed

capableness
potentiality

noun — the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment

capacity

Antonyms

incapability
incapableness

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.

Wiktionary

A file descriptor can be considered a capability that can only be leveraged using the appropriate system calls, passing it as an argument.

Wiktionary

The new team has the capability to win.

Tatoeba · #269081

She has the wonderful capability to overcome any obstacle.

Tatoeba · #311848

The man has the capability to talk.

Tatoeba · #1075896

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