capability

[Ca`pa*bilĀ·i*ty]

A capability is something a person or a thing is able to do. It's hard to find a cell phone that doesn't include other capabilities, like taking pictures or storing MP3s.

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Capacity of being used or improved.

Noun
the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability"

Noun
an aptitude that may be developed

Noun
the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment; "the capability of a metal to be fused"


n.
The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.

n.
Capacity of being used or improved.


Capability

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

Capacity of being used or improved.

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Usage Examples

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.

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Other Usage Examples

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

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