capability

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 11.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The power or ability to generate an outcome.
2. noun A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

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

Similar words

capableness capacity potentiality effectiveness able functional capable competence ability suitability

Often followed by

of to for and is in that as was

Word family

capabilities capable