ability meaning
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WAbility
- Ability may refer to:
- Aptitude, a component of a competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level
- Intelligence, logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem solving
- Knowledge, a familiarity with someone or something, which can include facts, information, descriptions, or skills
- Skill, the learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results
- Power (social and political), the ability to influence people or events
- NounPLabilitiesSUF-ability
- OBS Suitableness.
- NU The quality or state of being able; capacity to do; capacity of doing something; having the necessary power.
- This phone has the ability to have its software upgraded wirelessly.
- This wood has the ability to fight off insects, fungus, and mold for a considerable time.
- The legal wherewithal to act.
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
- (now limited to Scotland dialects) Physical power.
- (archaic) Financial ability.
- NU A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
- NC A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.
- They are persons of ability, who will go far in life.
- She has an uncanny ability to defuse conflict.
- OBS Suitableness.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- To discount the possibility that immunosera from VLP-immunized mice bound to a domain of AMA1 outside of the 4G2 epitope, we assessed that ability of 4G2 to block serum binding to AMA1.
- Monkeys and other animals can compute the exact number of a small set of objects at a glance without explicitly counting. The ability is called subitization.
- There is no ability to capture the blood lost on the battlefield for reinfusion.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The team's victory reflects the Captain's abilities.
- Because they are generally quite thick, old telephone books are sometimes used in informal tests of a weapon's cutting ability.
- Here, we have demonstrated that the two naturally occurring human CYP4B1 isoforms, with/without insSer207, have no 4-IPO bioactivating ability.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of ability in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
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- Countable nouns
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary