Hypertext Webster Gateway: "capability"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
--H. Taylor.
2. Capacity of being used or improved.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
capability
n 1: the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually
or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability"
[syn: {capableness}] [ant: {incapability}, {incapability}]
2: the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment;
"the capability of a metal to be fused" [syn: {capacity}]
3: an aptitude that may be developed [syn: {capableness}, {potentiality}]
[ant: {incapability}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.