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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
capability
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
▪ It also has full clip board capability.
▪ The sub needs to dive safely to her full depth capability after a major overhaul in order to win her navy approval.
▪ The intercontinental B-1B bomber's electronic countermeasure system will never have the full capabilities touted by the Reagan administration.
manufacturing
▪ Finally, certain manufacturing capabilities are crucial for effective overlapping.
▪ Indeed, manufacturing capability seems to have such a major impact on product development that it is worth examining in greater detail.
▪ The expansion will more than double the plant's manufacturing capabilities, making it one of the world's largest silicone plants.
▪ They saw that our business was suffering because our plant's manufacturing capability was by its nature inflexible, cumbersome and slow.
▪ The development process is, indeed, affected by manufacturing capability.
military
▪ Greater emphasis would be needed, as Watkinson proposed, on military intervention capability rather than on the existing network of colonial garrisons.
minimum
▪ Having the minimum capability required to learn new skills, behaviors, and relationships.
▪ Only rarely is the lack of sufficient minimum capability a real stumbling block to change.
▪ McKinsey consultants had the minimum capability to successfully learn the new skills and behaviors.
▪ Does the person have the minimum capabilities required to make the change? 5.
new
▪ This statement is a tribute not simply to new power projection capabilities, but to the nuclear build-up which preceded their appearance.
▪ How many new capabilities must the organization master?
▪ How much time does the organization have to learn the new capabilities?
nuclear
▪ With Bevin he also believed that Britain would have much less influence in Washington without some nuclear capability of her own.
▪ Rather, they are responsible states with undeclared, and to a large extent unproven, nuclear weapons capabilities.
▪ Control over these armed forces and the massive nuclear capability is uncertain.
technological
▪ One that balances leading edge technological capability with a thorough understanding of your business.
▪ An assessment of the present status of technological capabilities and identification of gaps, short-comings and needs; 2.
▪ Some technological capabilities have been enhanced, but the main benefits have been restricted to the simpler parts of the industry.
▪ Thus much research and development effort remains to create the technological capabilities needed to realize the objectives of open architecture and interoperability.
▪ Thus the scope of this new technique is enormous and its technological capabilities are being explored vigorously.
▪ The relationship between a company's size and its technological capabilities is unclear.
■ NOUN
intelligence
▪ Heavy lift and enhanced intelligence capability are two very specific matters that have been considered in those forums.
▪ The need for ubiquitous intelligence capabilities might intrude on civil liberties.
multimedia
▪ It will happen only if the designers and publishers of the new generation of products use multimedia capabilities to some purpose.
▪ Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities.
production
▪ Outsourcing means that effectively firms increase their production capabilities without having to invest themselves.
▪ I was basically asking the company to decide whether or not it wanted to maintain a domestic production capability.
research
▪ The programme focuses upon the development of research capability based on the candidate's own normally specialist background.
■ VERB
add
▪ Some vendors are expected to build devices that add facsimile and telephone capabilities, while others offer speech processing capability.
▪ Beyond its impressive scope, Deja News adds a speedy search capability.
▪ AT&T also will offer promotional packages for businesses that want to install new or upgrade existing Definity systems to add video capabilities.
▪ The company recently added RealAudio sound capabilities and is working on handling Java-based software.
▪ He adds that the graphics capabilities allow the operation of a slideshow without the need to buy a specialist presentation graphics package.
build
▪ If not, why build in the capability in the first place?
▪ To build capabilities, they had to get other consultants to experience change, not just read and think about it.
▪ Officials say they have been frustrated to find that telecommunications companies have not consistently built wiretap capabilities into their new technologies.
▪ To effectively build customer service capability at TeleCable, for exam-ple, demanded the application of the ten new management principles.
demonstrate
▪ They certainly go beyond the pre-linguistic prototypes of language, and demonstrate the capability of certain individual apes to outpace other species.
▪ Again and again, people have found that the body-mind, if assisted instead of assaulted, demonstrates remarkable capabilities of self-healing.
▪ A project to demonstrate the capabilities of the system in environmental and hydrogeological studies is under way.
depend
▪ The requirements here will depend on the destructive capabilities of the chosen fish species.
▪ Democracy depends upon a universal capability for critical response to print manipulation.
▪ It seems clear, then, that the costs of transmitting new technology depend on the basic capabilities of the parties involved.
▪ Access to multimedia content depends on the hardware capabilities of the customer.
develop
▪ Individual members were encouraged to develop a range of skills and to help others to develop their capabilities on the job.
▪ You could work outside the system to develop your revenue-generating capabilities.
enhance
▪ But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
▪ Scanning technology would enhance their capability even further, allowing transfer of physical pictures.
expand
▪ The rapidly expanding capabilities of information technology would facilitate the process.
▪ As a baby can explore the world and learn through its movements, so Infant explores its world and expands its capabilities.
▪ Essentially a text orientated language, it has been expanded to give graphics capability.
extend
▪ In recent years, the outage has been used to construct or commission major capital projects to extend the plants' capability.
▪ But the addition of sophisticated computer software could extend those capabilities still further.
▪ Various attempts are being made to extend the subject searching capability beyond the matching principle.
▪ The new Model extends the capability to a distributed environment, so that objects can be shared among networked systems.
▪ If you have any of these problems, you seriously need to consider extending your exercise capability by quite an amount.
improve
▪ These machines, the vehicles of the Al philosophy, will be vastly improved in their technical capabilities.
▪ Documents can be tracked to ensure they were received, thus improving auditing capabilities.
include
▪ The software includes multi-tasking capabilities, internet communications and a distributed file system via Network File System.
▪ The software's key features include remote boot capabilities, remote administration and increased security.
▪ Developers can include support capabilities as a module directly with their products in an Internet-based client/server architecture.
increase
▪ Outsourcing means that effectively firms increase their production capabilities without having to invest themselves.
▪ This is accompanied by an understanding of intentionality and an increased capability of considering motives when making judgments.
▪ Such increased capability, though, was not without a price.
learn
▪ Consultants now offer help to companies when assessing their knowledge resources and learning capabilities.
▪ How much time does the organization have to learn the new capabilities?
▪ For many companies, knowledge resources and learning capabilities are ways of gaining sustainable competitive advantage.
maintain
▪ I was basically asking the company to decide whether or not it wanted to maintain a domestic production capability.
▪ Partnerships with universities and private industry will be helpful in maintaining this capability.
offer
▪ Some vendors are expected to build devices that add facsimile and telephone capabilities, while others offer speech processing capability.
▪ It gives clients access to updated statements, and will offer transaction capability later this year.
provide
▪ To maintain a high level of performance in modern parallel architectures, High Performance Fortran also provides non-uniform memory access capabilities.
▪ In creating the Windows 95 version, Quarterdeck opted to overhaul the guts and provide more capabilities.
▪ A Geographical Information System provides just such capabilities.
▪ Heredity provides susceptibilities, capabilities, tendencies, and vulnerabilities.
▪ A range of third party applications is also available, providing analysis capabilities and visual displays.
▪ As it was, Jobs forbade his hardware team to provide even the capability to expand to 5 12K.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is unclear whether the country has the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
▪ Man Ray explored the capabilities of the camera to their fullest extent.
▪ The country is nearing the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
▪ The patrol plane has an infrared capability, so that searches can be made in the dark.
▪ This computer system gives the user the capability of accessing huge amounts of data.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Different mental capabilities are found in specific locations in the brain.
▪ It is generally sensible to limit the additional capabilities that the new desktop publishing product will give you to the bare minimum.
▪ Its superscalar capabilities are not aggressive, but a higher clock rate is expected.
▪ Reputation is a base of power stemming from others who have a favorable opinion of your work and capabilities.
▪ The Intel version shares the capabilities of the portable source Unix version and is said to be easy to install.
▪ The search can then focus on identifying those who exhibit the necessary leadership capabilities and track record.
▪ This gives SuperCalc an impressive extra capability.
▪ This was disturbing news to the South, whose naval capabilities were modest.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capability

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
capability

1580s, from capable + -ity. Capabilities "undeveloped faculty or property" is attested from 1778.

Wiktionary
capability

n. the power or ability to generate an outcome

WordNet
capability
  1. n. 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]

Wikipedia
Capability

A capability is the ability to perform or achieve certain actions or outcomes.

As it applies to human capital, capability represents the intersection of capacity and ability.

Capability may also refer to:

  • Capability (systems engineering), used in the defense and private industries
  • Capability approach in welfare economics
  • Capability-based addressing in computing
  • Capability-based security in computing
  • Capability Brown, an English landscape artist
  • Capability Development Group
  • Capability management in the defence sector
  • Capability Maturity Model, a development model
  • Capability Maturity Model Integration, a process improvement training and appraisal program
  • Dynamic capabilities theory in organizational sciences
  • Business Capability expression or the articulation of the capacity, materials, and expertise an organization needs in order to perform core functions
Capability (systems engineering)

A Capability, in the systems engineering sense, is defined as the ability to execute a specified course of action. A capability may or may not be accompanied by an intention. The term is used in the defense industry but also in private industry (e.g. Gap analysis).

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.