Capability

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Capability \Ca`pa*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Capabilities}.
     1. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp.
        intellectual power or ability.
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              A capability to take a thousand views of a subject.


                                                    --H. Taylor.
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     2. Capacity of being used or improved.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  capability
       n 1: the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually
            or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability"
            [syn: {capableness}] [ant: {incapability}, {incapability}]
       2: the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment;
          "the capability of a metal to be fused" [syn: {capacity}]
       3: an aptitude that may be developed [syn: {capableness}, {potentiality}]
          [ant: {incapability}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "capability":
     ability, ableness, address, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness,
     airmanship, aptitude, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bravura,
     brilliance, bump, caliber, capableness, capacity, cleverness,
     command, competence, competency, condition, control, coordination,
     craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness,
     dextrousness, diplomacy, dower, dowry, efficacy, efficiency,
     endowment, equipment, expertise, facility, faculty, finesse,
     fitness, fittedness, flair, forte, genius, gift, grace, grip,
     handiness, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, instinct,
     know-how, long suit, makings, marksmanship, mastership, mastery,
     maturity, means, metier, natural endowment, natural gift, parts,
     potential, power, powers, practical ability, preparedness,
     proficiency, prowess, qualification, quickness, readiness,
     resource, resourcefulness, ripeness, savoir-faire, savvy,
     seamanship, seasoning, skill, skillfulness, speciality,
     strong flair, strong point, style, sufficiency, suitability,
     suitableness, suitedness, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness,
     talent, talents, technical brilliance, technical mastery,
     technical skill, technique, tempering, the goods, the stuff,
     timing, trim, virtuosity, what it takes, wherewithal, wit,
     wizardry, workmanship
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  capability
       
           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)