capability
nounid
1755·updated May 9, 2026verified
The means to accomplish a mission, function, or objective.
polysemous
Attested in
No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.
Classifications
Entity Type
Capability95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- capablenesscapacitypotentiality
- alternatephrasing
- Capability
- plural
- capabilities
- possessive
- capability's
- pluralpossessive
- capabilities'
Framework definitions
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1
- The means to accomplish a mission, function, or objective.
- §1
- measure of capacity and the ability of an entity, person or organization to achieve its objectives
- §1
- the quality of being able -- physically or intellectually or legally
- §2
- an aptitude that may be developed
- §3
- the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment
- §1 · legacy_primary
- The means to accomplish a mission, function, or objective.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →intentnoun
Incoming relationships
- related
- ←intentnoun