capability

Noun

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. - 2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung,...
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.
   • Enforcing a security policy means controlling the rights users can acquire to data. In a capability machine, a user’s rights are defined by the capabilities he (or a process acting on his behalf) can obtain and the...