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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: capability n 1: 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}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: capabilitysystem, security> An {operating system} security or access control model where specific types of access to a specific object are granted by giving a process this data structure or {token}. The token may be unforgeable (typically by using {encryption} or hardware tagged" memory). Capabilities are used in OSes such as {Hydra}, {KeyKOS}, {EROS}, {Chorus}/{Mix}, and the {Stanford V system}. Similar to {Kerberos}, but in an OS context. Compare {access control list}. (1998-03-08)
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