capability
The power or ability to generate an outcome.
Other meanings
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.”
Related words
- capernosity
- immunocapability
- incapability
- limited-capability
- negative capability
- capability overhang
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “capability” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.