The quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally

Usage examples of capability.

B-39 Peacemaker force has been tasked by SIOP with maintaining an XK-Pluto capability directed at ablating the ability of the Russians to activate Project Koschei, the dormant alien entity they captured from the Nazis at the end of the last war.

In addition, a fledgling has to contend with the devastating effect of daylight, the ability to see, hear and smell things way beyond mortal capabilities, and an extraordinary mental acuity to mold mortal minds.

Instead, he must use the small capability given him to work his way upward, scrabble, get a purchase on matter that was not yet aflow, burrow to the stars.

Peez leaned back in her butter-soft leather desk chair with built-in footrest, CD player, aromatherapy dispenser, heating and massage capabilities, and wished she were dead.

She knew what it had to beand that, unlike a SLAM, it possessed onboard seeking capability.

And when he created his first biocomputer with high recognition capabilities, he had used a rude form of this kind of parallel reasoning.

Using partners and vendors not only allows big pharma to fill in the gaps in its bioinformatics capabilities but also gives it the mobility to adapt new technologies as they come onto the market rather than constantly overhauling its own systems.

Iraq was not bluffing and had the capability to overrun all of Kuwait was finally being sent out to the highest levels of the government.

FACTS AT A GLANCE Unit of Currency: The Grzbwczwcz Population: 30 million Light-Bulb-Changing Capability: 10 million Portugal Portugal is a small but, we are sure, proud nation located somewhere in Europe and boasting a history.

I even felt inclined to become his surety, if he could prove his capability of paying the sum for which he had been arrested.

Even Dayn spoke briefly on the fighting capabilities of the Rocs and their uses in aerial combat.

They are, in effect, suggesting that the United States is already deterred by the weak arsenal of weapons of mass destruction Saddam already possesses and his similarly weak terrorist capabilities, hi other words, a policy of deterrence toward Iraq not only is based on the belief that Saddam can be deterred but starts from the assumption that the United States already is.

If the United States can be deterred from taking military action against Iraq given its current modest capabilities, every rogue state in the world will have little to do to ensure its security and will likely be emboldened to greater aggression.

Even though we have been energetically conditioned to perceive solely our world, we still have the capability of entering into those other realms, which are as real, unique, absolute, and engulfing as our own world is.

He asserted that even though we have been energetically conditioned to perceive solely our world, we still have the capability of entering into those other realms, which are as real, unique, absolute, and engulfing as our own world is.