Dictionary

capability en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ (Canada, General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ (UK)
• [ˌkæɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ɾi] (Australia)
• /ˌkæɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ (Australia)
• /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˌkæɪ.pəˈbəl.ə.ɾi] (New-Zealand)
• [ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ɾi] (Canada, General-American)
• /ˌkæɪ.pəˈbəl.ə.ti/ (New-Zealand)

Etymology

Formed in Modern English as capable + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. 2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN:
2. (countable, uncountable) A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.
   • 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. 1987 November, Richard Y. Kain, Carl E. Landwehr, “On Access Checking in Capability-Based Systems”, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, volume SE-13, number 2, archived from the original on 03 May 2019, pages 202–207:
   • A file descriptor can be considered a capability that can only be leveraged using the appropriate system calls, passing it as an argument.

Forms

Deriveds

limited-capability · capernosity · immunocapability · capability overhang · incapability · negative capability

Relateds

capable

Translations (45)

ml ശേഷി (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · la potentia (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · io kapableso (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · hi क्षमता (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · sl zmožnost (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ca capacitat (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ru спосо́бность (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · id kemampuan (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · pt capacidade (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · id kapabilitas (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · eo mandato (in computing) · eo kapablo (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · pl możliwość (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · gl capacidade (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · mi āheitanga (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · eo eblo (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · mk способност (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · sq Aftesia (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ms keupayaan (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · gv jargallys (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ml കഴിവ് (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ka შნო (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · it capacità (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ja 能力 (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · oc capacitat (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · hy կարողություն (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · bg способност (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · fi kyky (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · de Fertigkeit (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · eo fakulto (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ro capabilitate (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · de Fähigkeit (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · pl zdolność (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · fi kykenevyys (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · fr capacité (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ga cumas (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · fi pystyvyys (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ckb توانا (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · ka შესაძლებლობა (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · sk schopnosť (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · sk spôsobilosť (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · gv jargaght (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · it possibilità (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · eo ebleco (the power or ability to generate an outcome) · bho क्षमता (the power or ability to generate an outcome)