capability

Definition

The power or ability to generate an outcome.

Etymology

Formed in Modern English as capable + -ity.

Example Sentences

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

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