capability

Plural

capabilities

1. 1.The power or ability to generate an outcome.

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

   • 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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