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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Found in these word lists
Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
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