capability — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. The power or ability to generate an outcome.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

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   And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.

2. A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   A file descriptor can be considered a capability that can only be leveraged using the appropriate system calls, passing it as an argument.

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   Enforcing a security policy means controlling the rights users can acquire to data. In a capability machine, a user’s rights are defined by the capabilities he (or a process acting on his behalf) can obtain and the access rights conferred by those capabilities.

Substantivo

1. the quality of being capable — physically or intellectually or legally

   Sinônimos

   capableness

   Antônimos

   incapability

   Termos mais gerais

   ability

   Exemplos

   he worked to the limits of his capability

2. the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment

   Sinônimos

   capacity

   Termos mais gerais

   susceptibilitysusceptibleness

   Exemplos

   the capability of a metal to be fused

3. an aptitude that may be developed

   Sinônimos

   capablenesspotentiality

   Antônimos

   incapability

   Termos mais gerais

   aptitude