capability

1. The quality of being capable; ability.
2. A talent or ability that has potential for development or use. Often used in the plural: a student of great capabilities.
3. The capacity to be used, treated, or developed for a specific purpose: nuclear capability.

In information security, an indicator (token, semaphore, etc.) that authorizes an access mode to an object such as a file or a device for a specific user or process. See also privilege.

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noun

Physical, mental, financial, or legal power to perform: ability, capacity, competence, competency, faculty, might. See ability/inability.

Definition: ability to perform
Antonyms: impotence, inability, incompetence, ineptness

n. forces or resources giving a country or state the ability to undertake a particular kind of military action: their nuclear weapons capability.

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(DOD) The ability to execute a specified course of action. (A capability may or may not be accompanied by an intention.)

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Capability is the ability to perform actions. As it applies to human capital, capability is the sum of expertise and capacity.

It is a component within the theories of:

• Capability-based security and Capability-based addressing in computing
• Capability approach in welfare economics
• Capability management in the defence sector
• Capability (systems engineering)

See also

• Ability
• Capacity
• Capability Brown, an English landscape artist

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Common misspelling(s) of capability

• caperbility