Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality of being capable; ability.
- n. A talent or ability that has potential for development or use. Often used in the plural: a student of great capabilities.
- n. The capacity to be used, treated, or developed for a specific purpose: nuclear capability.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being capable; ability to receive, or power to do; capacity of undergoing or of doing; capacity; ability; capableness.
Wiktionary
- n. The power or ability to generate an outcome.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.
- n. Capacity of being used or improved.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment
- n. an aptitude that may be developed
- n. the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally
Examples
“The end of negative capability is to create something beyond one's usual or conscious (affirmative?) capability like that splendid Satan whose star of morning so outshines God's sun and son.”
“$capability as whatever capability you would normally use.”
“To date, I have to admit that I have no clear idea of what the term "capability" means.”
“Some of the pilots I spoke to described the F‑22 as such a huge leap in capability that it ought to be considered not a fifth-generation fighter, one step up from the F‑15, but sixth-generation.”
“For modern phones like iPhone and others the HD capability is already there and might be switched with a software update.”
Time To Make Phone Calls Sound Better? « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
“But computers are doubling in capability approximately every 2 years.”
Ideas and Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But clarity, eye-relief, and light-gathering capability is generally very good.”
“But 3D capability is also popping up nearly everywhere.”
Consumer Reports: This holiday season, 3D is everywhere in consumer electronics
“Such a gap in capability could have wide-ranging impacts on all GPS users, though there are measures the Air Force and others can take to plan for and minimize these impacts.”
“And with these complex systems, capability is the real issue, because once capability exists you can anticipate exploitation of whatever systems you have to control abuse (or not, as in the case of GOP ideology).”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘capability’.
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ITRE - energy - general terms
above-market cost, access charge, actual peak load ..., affiliate, affiliated power ..., after-market, aggregation, aggregator, Alternating Curre..., Ampere, ancillary services, annual effects and 453 more...
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SEDE - principles and indicators
publicity, readiness, use of force, deterrence, K-kill, damage, morals, range, power, information security, balance of power, compliance with t... and 184 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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AFET - diplomacy
broker a peace ac..., client state, deadlocked peace ..., embassy, freeze, goodwill ambassador, hinterland, interfere in dome..., intervene personally, maintain technica..., mediation, no business as usual and 670 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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hypomania, hypomanic, complementary, deem, problematic, volatile, mercurial, unaccompanied, counterpart, irritability, hyperthymia, violent and 130 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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Z-kai
subject to, adopt, attentive, coverage, expectation, lower, demanding, count, project, capability, projection, conviction and 45 more...
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Lovality
one's ability to love and be loved
infinite, unconditional, limitless, beyond, openly, honestly, truthfully, capability, beautifilling
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