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capability

noun
/ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/UK/ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/CA/ˌkæɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.ti/

Etymology

Formed in Modern English as capable + -ity.

  1. derived from capābilis
  2. borrowed from capable
  3. formed as capability — “capable + -ity”

Definitions

  1. The power or ability to generate an outcome.

    • 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.

  2. A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object…

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

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

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Derived

capability overhang, capernosity, immunocapability, incapability, limited-capability, negative capability

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at capability. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01capability02power03undergo04bear05prices06price07worth08worthwhile09good

A definitional loop anchored at capability. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at capability

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA