0 the physical or mental power or skill needed to do something: --
I have children in my class of very mixed abilities (= different levels of skill or intelligence).
She's a woman of considerable abilities.
[ + to infinitive ] She had the ability to explain things clearly and concisely.
There's no doubting her ability.
1 used to form nouns from adjectives ending in "-able" to mean the quality of being the stated adjective: --
2 the mental or physical power or skill needed to do something: --
3 the power or skill needed to do something, or the fact that someone is able to do something: --
The biofilm's physical properties play important roles in controlling its metabolic activity and its ability to adhere to the substratum and itself.
We made four predictions about the possible roles of group differences, perceptual- motor ability, task difficulty, and chronological age in nonlinguistic performance.
It would be part of an overall effort to change perceptions about women's needs, roles, and abilities.
Could it account for language acquisition and the ability to talk about things that are far removed in time and space?
Where communities are less well organized, the ability to use events to improve policy is reduced, even if policy making appears to be event-driven.
The ability of this numerical method to consider non-isotropic initial data represents a decided advantage over other approaches.
The insula and temporal gyrus regions are also linked to verbal and language abilities.
No discrepancy in the ability to define anatomic structure was encountered for the body or outflow regions of the right ventricle.
