CAPABILITY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | `keypu'bilitee
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| Matching Terms: | | Capabilities Maturity Model, Capability Maturity Model
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- [n] the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability"
- [n] an aptitude that may be developed
- [n] the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment; "the capability of a metal to be fused"
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| | Synonyms: | | capableness, capableness, capacity, potentiality |
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| | Antonyms: | | incapability, incapability, incapableness, incapableness | | |
| | See Also: | | ability, activity, aptitude, associability, associableness, capacity, compass, executability, grasp, military capability, military posture, military strength, operating capability, overkill, perfectability, perfectibility, performance capability, posture, range, reach, strength, susceptibility, susceptibleness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
--H. Taylor.
2. Capacity of being used or improved.
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| | Definition: | | 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. |
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| | See Also: | | operating system, security | |
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