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capability

[key-puh-bil-i-tee]

noun, plural -ties.

the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.

the ability to undergo or be affected by a given treatment or action: the capability of glass in resisting heat.

Usually, capabilities. qualities, abilities, features, etc., that can be used or developed; potential: Though dilapidated, the house has great capabilities.

Origin:
1580–90; (< Middle French capabilité) < Late Latin capābili(s) capable + -ty²

Related forms

o·ver·ca·pa·bil·i·ty, noun, plural -ties.

su·per·ca·pa·bil·i·ty, noun, plural -ties.

Can be confused: ability, capability, capacity (see synonym note at ability).

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Example Sentences

Strong demonstrated interest and capability to undertake scholarly research publishable in leading journals.

Going from this to a tactical attack capability could be a costly delusion of grandeur.

Some scientists, he said, believe that even apes lack this capability.

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Strong demonstrated interest and capability to undertake scholarly research publishable in leading journals.

Going from this to a tactical attack capability could be a costly delusion of grandeur.

Some scientists, he said, believe that even apes lack this capability.

The original device is replaced with a version with two-way capability.

The countries with learned people that have the capability to save lives.

Security is at its best when those with the capability to fix security holes are also the ones who get hurt by them.

Solo performance capability and a strong desire to recruit and perform are required.

The retention of a half capability is no capability at all.

They have the capability to send out general broadcasts of sonic energy and actually see with sound.

Your phone manufacturer should announce this capability soon.

Discussions of the feature's capability had been swirling around newsgroups such as recvideo for weeks.

Those indicate schoolmates who are nearby, as detected by the computers' built-in wireless networking capability.

Only humans, though, develop the physical capability to make the complex sounds of speech.

Zip-in and snap-in capability lets boys add another layer to the exterior or interior of this jacket for added protection.

We can afford quite of lot of fun without damaging our capability to breed.

They have almost no storage, processing power, or graphics capability.

With pork, there's been a general upgrading of scientific capability nationwide that would otherwise not have happened.

Each has already dramatically cut its nuclear capability since the peak of the cold war.

But developing the new capability required a compromise.

For women, rrv is highest in the early stages of reproductive capability.

The central bank can run a real monetary policy and has some counter-cyclical capability.

It's one thing to have long range missle capability and antoher to have nuclear weapon capability.

Scholars of all ideological beliefs have the capability to be objective.

US manufacturing is shrinking at the low end and there is too little capability and attention at the high end.

No other country agonises so much over whether it should abandon or downgrade its nuclear capability.

Japan has no capability to project its power independently.

Couple such capability with new satellite measurements.

The more dots per pixel, the better the printer's capability to reproduce smooth shades of similar colors.

Big cats always possessed the capability of killing humans because they are built for the kill.

But they're boasting about a souped-up capability to use against anyone who'd.

We do have the medical capability to provide a calm, painless death to any mammal, animal or human.

Apparently the paper based test is only offered in countries without the technological capability to do the test on computer.

And, alongside the manufacturing base, the local university has kept up its metals-research capability.

In other words, this system allows us to project capability without projecting vulnerability.

It costs a lot of money to purchase nuclear capability.

But governments are also developing capability themselves.

With optical combs, the same capability to display the waveform is becoming available for light.

In particular, they want a tutoring capability that is smart enough to tailor its approach each student.

It will also features one-touch audio and video recording, as well as live-streaming capability.

Each chief constable decides what level of armed capability is appropriate for his force.

One interesting thing to me is that the indices of development have no capability to measure quality of life.

Humans can use this capability to, for example, touch their noses with their eyes closed.

In other words, the capability exists for robots to kill without human intervention.

Cheerful is interestingbut far from my capability.

It does have the capability of potentially saving someone's life.

That's true, but that capability has existed for decades.

We're hoping to add video capability in the next year or two.

Credibility is the name of the game, much more important than the actual capability to pay debt.

The electrical power generation and increased navigation capability is an additional ancillary benefit.

Of course this kind of capability doesn't come cheap.

One pointed out that even though annotation is possible on various readers, the annotation capability is quite limited.

The court case has proven that a generic capability exists to create liquid bombs from domestic items.

If it has no capability to wind itself up it too is dependent on something else, and therefore fully dependent.

The dinosaur's egg-producing capability lay somewhere in between, suggesting a link with the modern bird, researchers said.

I'd post them to prove it, but this board doesn't seem to have that capability.

The reliable mapping of the subconscious represents an unprecedented capability for manipulation and control.

The aim of the law is to bring to cell phone users the same automatic-locating capability that now exists with wireline phones.

My dean did not have the capability to even understand my accomplishments.

Simply because a deficit enhances our capability in another area, does not make it any less of a disfunction.

The car has stop/start capability and a full-electric mode at low speed.

As such he would be revered and appreciated for his unique capability to awaken joy.

Drinking chlorinated water, for example, raises similar questions for adaptive immune learning capability.

Those students would get some special attention and be graded more against their capability not the established norm.

The lidar would have high-resolution ranging capability to provide additional information on tree canopy height.

It might be better to consider the extensive literature on the relatively poor predictive capability of various metrics.

Those who got this capability would have a strike anywhere instantly capability with no trail indicating who did it.

GM engineers are said to be developing a quick-charge capability as well.

Just do more excercise and you will definetly a stronger mind capability.

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World English Dictionary

capability (ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ)

—n , pl -ties
1.	the quality of being capable; ability
2.	the quality of being susceptible to the use or treatment indicated: the capability of a metal to be fused
3.	(usually plural) a characteristic that may be developed; potential aptitude

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Word Origin & History

capability

1610s, formed in English from capable + -ity. Capabilities "undeveloped faculty or property" is attested from 1778.

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Computing Dictionary

capability definition

operating system, security
An operating system security or access control model where specific types of access to a specific object are granted by giving a process this data structure or token.
The token may be unforgeable (typically by using encryption or hardware "tagged" memory). Capabilities are used in OSes such as Hydra, KeyKOS, EROS, Chorus/Mix, and the Stanford V system. Similar to Kerberos, but in an OS context.
Compare access control list.
(1998-03-08)

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