1The power or ability to do something.

1. 1.1often capabilities The extent of someone's or something's ability.
   the job is beyond my capabilities

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   • I was scared that things would all go wrong and that it would really reflect badly on me and my abilities and capabilities.
   • It is a condition which has affected his ability to let people know his true capabilities.
   • Removing the distraction of gender allows boys and girls to concentrate on maximum development of their capabilities and talents.
   • This mission is well beyond the capability of conventional chemically powered spacecraft.
   • They were able to draw on their capabilities and reach their goals.
   • The experiences the baby has in the first few years of their life determines the intellectual capability of the child.
   • Two thousand and four concluded with the leadership capabilities of the Prime Minister still in question.
   • The cognitive capabilities and skills of robots are doubling every few months.
   • In effect, Gua acted like a human child to the extent of her physical capabilities.
   • There is a grain of truth here - he stubbornly refuses to accept that age matters, or there is a limit to human capabilities.
   • It is beyond my capabilities to comprehend the level of evil that has infected the minds of these people.
   • Symes showed the extent of his capabilities in the club's biggest game in its recent history.
   • It is beyond my capability to comprehend how someone could starve a baby to death.
   • Some drivers are afraid to drive the car to the full extent of its capabilities.
   • The student should clearly understand his capabilities and identify his aptitude for higher education and a career.
   • Through hardships we discover what we are really made of, our physical, emotional, mental capabilities.

   Synonyms

   capabilities, capacity
2. 1.2 A facility on a computer for performing a specified task.
   a graphics capability

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   • Throw in email capability and the Google search engine, and you had, hands down, the best Web site in the world.
   • However, such software also provides Weblog capabilities for its individual members.
   • Hyperlinking is a technological capability that enables one specific Web site to link directly to another.
   • No real computer possesses greater problem-solving capability than that of Turing's idealized machine.
   • The deal will enable VeriSign to offer multimedia messaging capabilities and interoperability services to carriers.
   • But now we had the benefit of Microsoft Outlook, massive Email storage capabilities and bandwidth.
   • Sound cards have audio capabilities that far exceed what telephones can do.
   • I still need to find out if I have FireWire capability and how much available hard disk space I have.
   • The UMA switching capability is based on software from industry leader Kineto Wireless.
   • Though smaller, the chip sports better graphics capabilities and performance.
   • Its chips are also used in personal computers to enhance graphics capabilities.
   • With the phone's Bluetooth capability, one can also print e-mails or images directly from the handset.
   • The custom circuitry also has an extended recursive look-up capability.
   • You can control and schedule each computer's Internet access capabilities.
   • A software feature is a capability for completing a certain task that has been designed into a system.
   • To achieve these resolution standards, you will need a camera of at least 3.1 megapixels capability.
   • Its intelligent indexing offers a fast search capability to find any information required
   • What if we all traded our PCs for really smart mobile phones with voice interfaces and computing capability?
   • When it comes to the crunch, very few relational database vendors can truly claim to offer a revolutionary XML capability.
   • There are a lot of software packages pitching reboot capability at the moment.

   Synonyms

   functioning, working, operation, running, behaviour, capabilities, capacity, power, potential
3. 1.3 Forces or resources giving a country or state the ability to undertake a particular kind of military action.
   their nuclear weapons capability

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   • First, how much conventional war-fighting capability should the US military retain?
   • The huge effort to build up the U.S. presence in the Middle East taxed the Air Force's airlift capability.
   • People are an essential element of any military capability.
   • This compels the Army to accelerate the development of selected future force capabilities.
   • Does the absence of a chemical-warfare tactical capability hurt the U.S. military?
   • Currently there is no deployable capability for the European Rapid Reaction Force.
   • They also need to understand how military capability is empirically related to the functionality of systems.
   • Her experiences at Scutari convinced her that the impediment to maximal military capability was illness.
   • In any case, only the United States has the military capability to undertake global operations by itself.
   • The need to apply appropriate military capability prudently is paramount.
   • The creation of a European arms industry was linked to plans for a military capability independent of NATO.
   • Military capability is the other indispensable component of defense.
   • Acquiring nuclear weapons capability clearly would be a difficult undertaking for such organizations.
   • There's been a big buildup in military capability, in missiles deployed along the mainland coast.
   • He said deployment of the WLRs were part of the force protection capability offered by the Australian Army.
   • Nations are restructuring their military capabilities to provide such forces more easily.
   • Both new countries had to reduce their military capability and both states had to pay reparations for war damage.
   • The author cites an absence of Baltic military capability as another NATO obstacle.
   • The strategic aim of strike is to effectively deprive the enemy of the capability to employ military forces in the pursuit of their aim.
   • Typically, operational centers of gravity are military capabilities or forces.