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noun

capability

CEFR B2

the quality of being capable — physically or intellectually or legally

In a sentence

Six example sentences with capability, each labelled with its topic.

  • The small team lacked the capability to ship hardware, so they licensed the design to a factory in Taipei.

    Startups

  • The rural hospital gained the capability to read scans overnight once a radiologist agreed to review images remotely.

    Medicine

  • At seventeen he already had the capability to guard three positions, which is why four programs offered him a place.

    Basketball

  • The new chip adds the capability to run speech recognition on the phone itself, with no connection to a server.

    Technology

  • The upgraded telescope gained the capability to detect planets smaller than Earth around stars forty light-years away.

    Science

  • A minor lacks the legal capability to sign the contract, so the court required a guardian's signature beside hers.

    Law

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