Capability

Quick meaning: Capability is a noun meaning The power or ability to generate an outcome.

Meaning

The power or ability to generate an outcome.

More Meanings

1. (computing) A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.

Example Sentences

A file descriptor can be considered a capability that can only be leveraged using the appropriate system calls, passing it as an argument.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• capabilities

Synonyms for capability

Depending on context, synonyms include capacity, potentiality, capableness.

Antonyms for capability

Common opposites include incapability, incapableness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include capableness, capacity, potentiality, effectiveness, able, functional.

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