The quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose

Usage examples of suitability.

So the hat should be the crowning glory of a costume, the center of interest, and should receive the most careful attention as to becomingness, suitability, and workmanship.

To ascertain the suitability of the Fioneriska rock formations for the storage of radio nuclides with decay half-lives in excess of one million years, as suggested, further deep drilling operations would be required.

In discerning the suitability of the Teutonic legend for this purpose Marlowe showed a far truer understanding of what tragedy should be, of the superior terrors of moral over material downfall, than he displayed in his more successful later tragedy.

At the time he enters the country, at the time he applies for permission to acquire the full status of citizenship, and during the intervening years, he can be subjected to searching investigations as to conduct and suitability for citizenship.

Highest in general suitability, probably, are clay loams underlaid with a moderately porous clay subsoil.

The effectiveness of the rocket attack against the Danish flagship Christiania was due more to the intrepidity of Captain Richter in the attack, than to the inherent suitability of the weapon.

Now, at last, when the King began to enquire about affairs in the Marches and the Queen engaged her mother in talk about the suitability of their Westminster apartment, Cressida was able to really look about her.

With long-range scanningeven of the simplest and most basic typesit is possible to detect the suitability of a star system long before you enter it.

Archer had always had his doubts about the Squids' suitability to run what obviously should have been an Air Force command properly, but he'd never seriously expected them to drop the ball this badly.

Archer had always had his doubts about the Squids suitability to run what obviously should have been an Air Force command properly, but hed never seriously expected them to drop the ball this badly.

At any rate, I see my suitability to serve as Magister Ludi as imperiled, and this by circumstances beyond my control.

That model will be designed, in evolution, for its suitability for useful internal representation, irrespective of the physical stimuli that come to it from outside.

We know how to plan things, like overall corporate policy, like inventory management, like distribution, like site suitability.

This of course merely suggests a certain degree of suitability from a physical point of view.