The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incapacitation \In`ca*pac`i*ta"tion\, n.
The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated;
incapacity; disqualification.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1741, noun of action from incapacitate.
Wiktionary
n. The act of incapacitate or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
Wikipedia
Incapacitation in the context of sentencing philosophy is the effect of a sentence in positively preventing (rather than merely deterring) future offending.
Incapacitation is usually a state of impaired and limited physiological capabilities. Specifically, it may refer to:
- Incapacitation (penology)
- Pilot incapacitation
Usage examples of "incapacitation".
Sandanato heard them going on and on about pain, degrees of incapacitation, names of drugs, side effects.
On the death or incapacitation of a consul, the Senate was also empowered to appoint a suffect consul without holding an election.
No sensible robot would envy human fragility, or human incapacity to withstand mild changes in the environment, or human need for sleep, or aptitude for the trivial mistake, or tendency to infectious and degenerative disease, or incapacitation through illogical storms of emotion.